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CONTENTS. 



List of Lesson Chapters. 
Directions to Teachers. 
Teachers^ Manuals and Helps. 
List of Memoriter Work. 
Lesson Chapters. 

Sunday School Commission Lesson Series. 
Tabulated Curriculum or Sequence o^^ Lesson Man- 
uals. 



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LIST OF LESSON CHAPTERS. 



Division I. of Catechism — Holy Baptism, the Entrance 

into God's Family, the Church. 
CHAPTER I. The Story of our Name. 
CHAPTER 11. The Family of God. 
CHAPTER III. The Family and the Children. 
CHAPTER IV. What God's Children Promise to 
Renounce. 
(a) The Devil and All His Works. 
CHAPTER V. What God's Children Promise to 
Renounce. 
(h) The Pomps and Vanities of this Wicked World. 
CHAPTER VI. What God's Children Believe. 
CHAPTER VII. What God's Children Do. 
Division II. of Catechism. — The Creed, the Body or 
Foundation of God's Church. 

CHAPTER VIII. What God's Children are Taught 
in the Father's House. 
(a) Belief in God the Father and God the Son. 
CHAPTER IX. What God's Children are Taught 
IN THE Father's House. 
(&) Belief in God the Holy Spirit. 

Division III. of Catechism. — The Commandments, the 

WorTc of God's Church. 
CHAPTER X. Heavenly Duties. 
CHAPTER XL Holy Days and. Holy Places. 
CHAPTER XII. Earthly Duties. 

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CHAPTER XIII. God's Childreit in their Earthly 
Home. 

Division IV. of Catechism. — The Lord's Prayer, the Wor- 
ship of God's Church. 

CHAPTER XIV. The Prayer our Saviour Taught 
Us. 

(a) Prayer to our Father. What is it? 
CHAPTER XV. The Prayer our Saviour Taught 

Us. 

(b) Our Father's Love and Care. 

CHAPTER XVI. The Prayer our Saviour Taught 
Us. 

(c) Our Father's Forgiveness and Deliverance. 
CHAPTER XVII. Going to Church. 

Division V. of Catechism. — The Sacraments, the Means of 

Grace, Provided in God's Church. 
CHAPTER XVIII. The Sacrament of Holy Baptism. 
CHAPTER XIX. The Sacrament of the Altar. 

(a) The Sacrifice of JESUS. 
CHAPTER XX. The Sacrament of the Altar. 

(&) What it Means to Partake of the Body and Blood 
of JESUS. 
REVIEW CHAPTER. 



NOTES AND DIEECTIONS FOE TEACHEES. 

Method of Teaching these Lessons. 

This Course of Lessons on the Catechism is intended 
for children of the "beginning-reading" age, usually about 
eight or nine years old, and certainly never over ten at the 
commencement of the course. It covers a period of twenty 
lessons if the teacher assigns a Chapter per week. In 
many schools, however, it will be found necessary to devote 
a longer time, dividing certain lengthy lessons into two. 
In others, it will be likely that the course can be thor- 
oughly completed in twelve or fifteen lessons. 

This course is designed to form one-half year, in the 
average school year, in most schools, with the Use of the 
Prayer Book, as a small child should know it, for practical 
manipulation in Church, for the course of the second half 
of the same year. The order may be reversed if desired, 
or either. course may be used independently. 

Again, this scheme includes the teaching of the Christ- 
ian Year, its symbolism, lessons, days, colors, etc., for five 
minutes each Sunday, in direct connection with the Church 
Year, as it proceeds. This course has been arranged in a 
separate book, which is supposed to accompany either 
this course or the one on the Prayer Book, according as 
one or the other is used during the Advent Term when the 
Christian Year Lessons properly begin. Full directions. 
Suggestions for Teacher's Helps, Illustrations, etc., will 
be found in that manual. 

Thoroughness. 

To secure the results aimed at in this course, viz., to 
impart the Text of the Catechism with but a simple ex- 

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planation of its meaning, at the very best memory age of 
the child, the utmost thoroughness must be insisted on. 
No child should be allowed to slip over the course, with 
sections of the Catechism unlearned or ill-learned. It is 
not so essential that memoriter work, such as hymns, 
prayers, etc., be learned, and with dull or negligent child- 
ren, such memorizing may wisely be omitted. But it is 
imperative that the Catechism Text be stored up in mem- 
ory, with perfect fidelity — ad literatim et punctutatim. 
Consequently, it may frequently take the place of assigned 
work in Hymns and Prayers. 

Written Work. 

It will be found that children of the age for which this 
is planned (and these lesson manuals are utter failures, 
if used out of their proper ages) are able to write with 
difficulty, slowly, scrawly, and in a rather large hand. 
Still written work is conducive both to retentive memory 
and to clearness in thought. It should be encouraged in 
this course. At any rate, whether the answer be written 
or oral, it should always be a complete sentence or state- 
ment, not merely complete the question. When children 
can, they should write out all the advanced work. At 
least some questions at any rate can be assigned at each 
lesson. The answers may be written in the Picture Note 
Books, opposite the pictures, or on separate sheets of paper, 
or in cheap blank books. 

Pictures. 

The eye is the open sesame to thought and understand- 
ing in childhood, and more and more to-day in adult life 
as well. We depend more fully upon seeing pictures to 

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clarify our thought. While we have inserted many illus- 
trations in the lesson manual, there are countless others, 
which teachers can readily secure from among the several 
noted one-cent series. A tabulated Handbook of such pic- 
tures is given in the list of Teachers' Helps. Note Books 
are usually given the children, and a picture a week to 
illustrate the lesson. This is more important than it 
seems, for the transition has been all too sudden from the 
all-picture and no-lesson book of the Primary School to 
the all-book and no-picture method so frequently in vogue 
in the Grammar School. 

Teachers' Helps. 

No conscientious teacher will be content to use these les- 
sons (or any lessons) without more material for her own 
teaching than the scholar's manual affords. Abundant 
helps are noted in the list here given, and at least one of 
them should be carefully studied before coming to class. 
Moreover, the advance lesson should have been thoroughly 
gone over, so that the teacher may intelligently assign the 
new lesson, and suggest lines of study, questions for special 
research, pictures, etc. 

Habits. 

Intellectual results are not all, nor even the most im- 
portant, as indications of effective teaching in Sunday 
School. Character-building, that is habit-forming, is the 
chief end in view. All our teaching should directly, week 
by week, produce fruitage in better living, in good habits 
formed, in bad ones overcome. Two habits at least lie in 
the way of certain formation by every teacher in every 
school: (1) Private daily morning and evening prayer, 

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developed in each child. Give each scholar a little Prayer 
Card in accord with the Graded Prayer Card Series, 
suggested by the Commission, and note how soon the 
Prayer Habit is secured. (2) Eequire each child to 
attend at least one Public Service a week; if practicable 
a different one, not always the same, in order to be trained 
in the Services, not as "compulsory Church." The habit of 
regular Church Attendance soon becomes fixed. Children 
of eight years have often been seen as regular attendants 
and worshippers in Church. 

The Influence of Certificates. 

Use the "Step Catechism" with the scholars for the 
memorizing of the Catechism Text. There is a little 
psychological trick behind its use, easy stages in learning, 
work broken into encouraging bits, and a proper recogni- 
tion at the end of each separate piece of work accomplished. 
Again, at the end of the course, give two Certificates. It 
will be well worth while. Give one for the perfect (abso- 
lutely perfect only) recitation of the entii^e Catechism, a 
little card, such as is in general use. Give the second, a 
general Certificate for the Course, after an Examination on 
the Lesson Talks, either oral, or preferably written. Once 
this course is mastered, the Catechism Text is faithfully 
stored in memory, and will remain there through all after 
life. In the Doctrine Age of Puberty, it will be taken up 
again, and fully explained. 



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SUGGGESTED BOOKS AND SUPPLIES FOE 
TEACHEES. 



Books. 

The Teaching of the Catechism. Beatrice Ward. Long- 
mans. 90c. This is about the best book, with inter- 
esting text, notes, suggestions, etc. 

The Church Catechism, Its History and Contents. A. J. 
C. Allen. Longmans. $1. English verbage and 
method. 210 pages. Pretty fully detailed and advanced 
for this age. Better suited to the age of twelve or later. 
Suggestive to teachers, though, in some parts. 

Christ and the Catechism. Eev. James Street. Ch. of 
England S. S. Institute. $1. The same criticism as 
on the above book. A good help, if wisely used. 

Lessons on the Church Catechism. Eev. A. Cluny Mac- 
Pherson. Ch. of Eng. S. S. Inst. 60c. Good, but 
heavy. 

The Church Catechism. Eev. T. G. M^Gonigle. Young 
Churchman Co. 10c. Question-and-Answer Form, 
but has some good explanations. 

The Church Catechism. Eev. Lester Bradner, Jr., Ph.D. 
S. S. Com. 10c. A course of lessons, and only ques- 
tions, but very suggestive in diagrams and ways of 
putting things. Suggests new questions. 

The Meaning of Words in the Catechism. Eev. W. W. 
Smith. S. S. Com. 2c. It is incorporated verbatim 
in the text of this course, broken up into sections ; but 
is supplied in a separate pamphlet, if desired. 

The Church Catechism. Eev. Dr. Eegester. Gorham. 
15c. Explains the words and terms. Excellent. 



The Church Catechism Illustrated and Explained. 

The Church Catechism Illustrated. Mrs. C. H. Smith. 

Gorham. 10c. A course of question-and-answer les- 
- sons, but valuable for the illustrations in text. 
Charts on the Church Catechism. Outward and Visible 

Sign Charts. Book, cloth, $1; boards, 80c. Wall 

Charts, $5 a set. Caswell Co. Abstract and symbolic. 
Genealogical Charts on the Prayer Booh. Murray. S. S. 

Com. 25c. Suggestive in skeleton analysis. 

Supplies. 

Step Catechism. Divided for Learning. 3c. each. 

Prayer Cards. Hymns and Lord^s Prayer, each Ic. Com- 
bined, IJc. Older Card, prayers only, for age of eight, 
Ic. each. 

Pictures.. Any selection of one-cent, 120 for $1. S. S. 
Com. 

Picture HandhooTc. 13,000 pictures. Eev. W. W. Smith. 
S. S. Com. 5c. Lists of all religious pictures in 
America, in Bible Order, so as to make easy selection, 
by publisher, price, size, etc. 

Note Boohs. 144 pages. Heavy boards, well bound. S. 
S. Com. 8c. 

Stichers for Inserting Pictures. S. S. Com. 15c. per 
thousand. 

Certificates for Catechism. Eed and Blue. Young Church- 
man Co. 25c. per dozen. 

General Certificates. Plain. S. S. Com. 25c. per dozen. 
Colored, 50c. per dozen. 

Special Certificates and Folder for a Graded Course. S. 
S. Com. Cover, 5c. Certificates, any wording of the 
S. S. Com. Series, 2c. each. 

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Note: — There is no "free delivery." On all orders, 
postage or expressage must be paid by the customer. To 
save delay and expense, it is often better for the publisher 
to prepay charges. In all cases, it is understood that the 
customer is to remit the cost. 



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LIST OF MEMOEITEE WOEK. 



CHAPTEE I. Catechism, Questions 1-2. 
CHAPTEE II. Hymn 553, verses 1, 2, 4, 5. 
CHAPTEE III. Hymn 540, verses 1-4. 
CHAPTEE IV. Catechism, Questions 3-4. 
CHAPTEE V. Hymn 375, verses 1-4. 
CHAPTEE VI. Hymn 563. 
CHAPTEE VII. Hymn 577, verses 1-4. 
CHAPTEE VIII. Catechism, Question 5. 
CHAPTEE IX. Catechism, Question 6. 
CHAPTEE X. Catechism, Questions 7-8a, 9-10. 
CHAPTEE XI. Hymn 556 or Hymn 516, verses 1-3. 
CHAPTEE XII. Catechism, Question 8b. 
CHAPTEE XIII. Catechism, Question 11. 
CHAPTEE XIV. Catechism, Question 12. 
CHAPTEE XV. Catechism, Question 13. 
CHAPTEE XVI. Private Morning and Evening Prayers. 
CHAPTEE XVII. Hymn 30. 
CHAPTEE XVIII. Catechism, Questions 14-20. 
CHAPTEE XIX. Catechism, Questions 21-23. 
CHAPTEE XX. Catechism, Questions 24-25. 




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DIVISION I. OF CATECHISM. 



Holy Baptism, the Entrance into God's Family, 
the Church. 

The Church Door. — Do you remember that our Blessed 




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Lord called Himself The Door? It is one of the most 
wonderful of His Names, because it means that through 
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Kingdom of the Father. There must always be a way by 
which we begin to do anything. And so there must always 
be a Door, or beginning place, by which we enter any 
country or house or church. If we enter the United States 
it must be at some harbor or city, like New York, or New 
Orleans, or San Francisco. When anyone opens the Door 
to give us welcome to his house, we know that he means 
that for the time we stay there we have all the rights and 
privileges of his home. Now the Church Building is God^s 
earthly House. It was built for His worship, and a place 
where all His children could gather and feel at home. 
This is the reason why little children belong in church as 
well as big people. Every little child has a right to come 
to church, as much as to come into his own earthly father's 
house. 

Now our earthly homes are arranged for one kind of 
use, and the Heavenly House, or the Church, is arranged 
for God's worship, and a place where His people are taught 
to know and serve Him. 

On the next page is a diagram of a church. You will 
see that it is shaped something like a cross ^ with parts 
reaching out like arms of the cross. So we can divide the 
church into five parts, just as we do the Catechism. 

1. The Door, or entrance. 

2. The long, large part, called the Nave. 

3. The Crossing, like the Arms of the Cross, called the 

Transept. 

4. The part just above the Crossing, which we call the 

Choir. 

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Now each of these parts corresponds to some part of 
the Catechism. 

Part I. — This is that part of the Catechism down to the 
Creed. It tells what was done for you when yon were bap- 
tized, and what yonr God-parents promised when yon were 
made God^s child. This is the reason why the Font is 
placed, if possible, at the Entrance, or Door. 



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CHAPTER I. 



The Story of Our Name 

Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

1. What is your Name? 
Answer. N. or M. 

2. Q. Who gave you this Name? 

A. M}^ Sponsors in Baptism; wherein I was made a 
member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the 
kingdom of heaven. 

Explanation of Words. 

Catechism, a Form of Teaching by Question and An- 
swer. 

1. N or M. IST is for Name, if but one Christian 
Name. Two Ns for two Names. Later joined together, 
just as the two Ys in W (double U), making NN. Then 
called M, which it resembled. 

2. Sponsors. The same as Promisors, Sureties, God- 
parents. Those, who Eespond, or answer for the child ; 
and assume or answer for the child^s Responsibilities. 

Inheritors, Heirs, those who receive a promised In- 
heritance. :: 

The Lesson Story. 

Many years ago, when the Lord Jesus was a little Babe, 
only a few days old, and the neighbors and friends came 
to look upon His face, they asked His Mother, the Blessed 
Virgin Mary, by what name she would call Him. They 




JOHN THE BAPTIST PKEACHING. {Titian.) 

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thought He might be called Joseph, after the name of the 
husband of S. Mary. But Mary remembered that the won- 




THE ANGEL GABRIEL^S MESSAGE TO S. MARY. 

(Hofmann.) 

derful angel, S. Gabriel, who brought her the first prom- 
ise of His Birth, had told her that she must call Him 
Jesus, because when He grew to be a man. He would be 
the Saviour and Helper of His people. So she and S. Jo- 
seph gave Him this Name, the most beautiful Name in all 
the world. 

We know that when He was born, the shepherds heard 
angels singing all through the night, and this was their 
song: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, 
good will toward men." They were tending their flocks of 
sheep on the hillsides near the little city of Bethlehem, and 
when the angels left them, they said to each other. Let us go 



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now into Bethlehem, and see this wonderful thing that the 
angels tell us has come to pass. You know how they found 
the Holy Child, and His Mother, in the stable of a cave, 
and near by the oxen and cattle feeding. 




VISIT OF THE SHEPHERDS. 



This picture shows how all this must have been, just 
as the Christmas carol tells us: 

"Once in royal David's city 
Stood a lowly cattle shed, 
Where a mother laid her baby, 

In a manger for His bed; 
Mary was that Mother mild, 
Jesus Christ her little Child." 

1. Why do we have to have names? — Because every 
one of us is different from everybody else. When people 
think of us they must have something by which to call us. 
If every boy were called John no one would know which 
one was meant. So the real meaning of the word "name" 
is that something by which a person is known. People may 
be far away from us, but we speak their names, and others 

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know at once about whom we are talking. Flowers are 
always flowers, but we should never call the rose a daisy, 
nor the buttercup a lily. So it is with people, and so it is 
with everything in the world. But is it not so with our 
Heavenly Father? When we speak of Him, we say the 
word "Father." You remember the Prayer that our 




From Mrs. Smithes ''Church Catechism Illustrated' 



Blessed Lord taught His Disciples one day : ''Our Father 
Who art in heaven.'' This name tells us all about God, and 
we think of Him just as Jesus thought of Him, the 
mighty God, Who made all things in heaven and earth, 
the stars and sun, the flowers and grasses and forests, the 



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great rivers and oceans — and yet we call Him Our Father. 
This means that we know something about Him. 

2. But how did we get our names? One day when you 
were a little child your father and mother brought you to 
the church. Here is the picture of a Font. Where does it 
stand in your church ? Very often it is near the entrance 
door. Sometimes it stands in a place apart from the rest 
of the Church, built to hold it, and all about it are beau- 
tiful windows and marbles. Sometimes it is placed up 
near the altar but off at one side. Wherever it is, it is 
separated from other things, because it is to be used only 
for Holy Baptism, and we sometimes call the place where 
it stands the Baptistery. Holy Baptism is the entrance 
into God's Christian Kingdom, the Church, and so we often 
place the Font or Baptistery near the door or entrance of 
the church building to picture or teach us this lesson. 

Here you were brought as a little child, and the min- 
ister read the story of how the Lord Jesus took the children 
in His arms and blessed them. He offered prayers for God's 
blessing upon you also. Perhaps, beside your parents, 
there were friends there who loved you, and promised that 
if ever your father and mother were unable to do so, they 
would care for you and teach you. So the minister asked 
them if they would promise to do all this, to teach you of 
God and help to make you His faithful child. When they 
promised this, he called you by your name, and put water 
on your head in the Name of the Father and of the Son 
and of the Holy Ghost. Then he made the sign of the 
Cross on your forehead, and declared that you were now 
formally made God's child. The name he gave you is 
your Christ-name, and you are so enrolled in Christ's 
Church. 

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Sometimes, you know, people have two Christian 
names, as for example, Mary Jane. So the answer to the 
first question in the Catechism is — N or M. N means one 
names; M stands for two Ns joined together, as NN, Mary 
Jane. 

I. — Questions for Home Study. 

{To he answered in writing, if possible, after a careful 
reading of the Lesson 8tory.) 

1. What name was given to our Lord? 

2. Why did God give Him this Name? 

3. Where was He born ? 

4. Can you tell me the story of Christmas ? 

5. Why do we have to have names ? 

6. When was your name given you? 

7. Can you tell me what they do when a little baby is 

baptized ? 

8. Where in your own church does the Font stand? 

9. Why is it placed there ? 



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CHAPTER II. 



The Family of God 

Memoet Work to be Learned at Home. 

Hymn 553, verses 1, 2, 4, and 5 — "There's a Friend for 
Little Children.'' (See Hymnal.) 

The Lesson" Story. 

Far away across the sea there is a land called Syria. It 
lies east of the country where our Saviour lived, and in it 
there are great mountains and large rivers, and some of the 
oldest cities in all the world. There was once, many hun- 
dreds of years ago, a boy who lived in this land, named 
Abram, and God called him to leave his home and go west- 
ward, across the river Euphrates, into the land of Palestine, 
and there God changed his name into Abraham, and made 
him the father of His chosen people, the Jews. This nation 
was the special Family of God on earth, and every Jewish 
child was taught that God who made the earth and heavens, 
was his Father. Of course God loved all nations, and He 
taught the Jewish people this, and told Abraham that in 
him and his children all the people of the earth would be 
blessed. They did not all of them understand this. They 
thought that God cared for them more than for anyone 
else. But they did learn a great many things that others 
knew nothing about, and the things God taught them, 
others could learn from them. After Abraham came other 
great and good men, like Samuel and David, and the wise 
teachers like Isaiah, and so this earthly Family of God 
lived on, learning more and more about God for many hun- 
dreds of years. 

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Then at last God sent'His Son Jesns Christ, because 
He wanted all the world gathered into His Family, not 
only little Jewish children, but English and German and 
French, Negroes, and Japanese, and ns here in America.!^ 




OUR LORD BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN. 



We are all God's children, and are members of God's great 
Family. 

In the second question of the Catechism are these 
words that tell ns abont this Family of God, and its 
children. 

Yon children are members of Christ. You know that 

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Jesus is the Son of God, and He told His disciples that they 
should go everywhere through the world and tell men that 
God is their Father also. They were to baptize little 
children as well as grown up men and women, in the Name 
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. So 
every child becomes a member of Christ, because Christ 
is the Son of God and every child is a member of the Fam- 
ily of God by Holy Baptism. One of the most beautiful 
names sometimes given to our Blessed Lord, is our Elder 
Brother. We know how great^His love for us must be, and 
how tenderly He always treated little children. He never 
forgot that He Himself had been a little child, and mothers 
never feared to bring their children to Him for His 
blessing. 

I. — Eevev7 Questions. 

{To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. Why do we have names? 

2. When was your name given to you? 

3. What is done when a baby is baptized ? 

II. — Questions for Home Study. 

{To he Answered in Writing if possihle.) 

1. What man is told of in this Lesson Story? 

2. What was his name at first ? 

3. Who changed it afterwards? 

4. Did God love the Jewish people better than He did 

others ? 

5. How did He teach them ? 

6. Who came to save the world, many hundreds of years 

after Abraham? 

7. What is a member of Christ? Are you? When were 

you made so? 

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CHAPTER III. 



The Family and the Children 

Memory Work to be Learis^ed at Home. 

Hymn 540, verses 1-4 inclusive. "Once in Royal 
David^s City.^^ (Hymnal.) 

Lesson Story. 

So you are a child of God. Before you were baptized 
you were the child of your earthly father, but were little, 
helpless, and ignorant. Over in China there are thousands 
just as you were. But still God is the Great Father. He 
loves and watches over every child in all the world. And 
He wants every child to know that He is a mighty and 
loving Father. In Holy Baptism He takes the little one, 
and gives him his new name, and bids all the world know 
that He has welcomed this child into His Family. What 
He does for you He wants to do for aU others. This is the 
reason why the Church sends missionaries through the 
world to preach the Gospel. Think of the children who do 
not know what we know of God, not only in far off heatheijL 
lands, but here in our own country. They may live in 
places where no one thinks of God or cares for Him, where 
there is every sort of wickedness, and so instead of loving 
and doing what is right they grow up into careless and 
evil ways. 

Now if we could only give these children Holy Baptism, 
and teach them the love of God and how to do His will, 
think how great a change we should bring them. They 
would thus know that they are the members of Christ and 
children of God. 



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The Church Catechism Illustrated and Explained. 

But if we are God's children, then we must be His 
heirs. God's Throne is in the heavens. All through the 
sky there are wonderful stars and worlds. He made all 
these. They tell us how great He is. Then this world 




THE INFANT SAMUEL. (Reynolds.) 



about us, how large it is ! How big its mountains and hills 
and the ocean, stretching so far away beyond our sight. 
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which God rules. Here is this picture of little Samuel, 
of whom your teacher can tell you. Can you find it in 
the First Book of Samuel in the Bible, and in the third 
chapter? He worshipped God and served Him. This 
shows how he prayed to God, the Maker of earth and 
heaven. Samuel was a member of God^s Jewish Church, 
many, many hundreds of years ago, long before our Lord 
was born in Bethlehem. But when Jesus came, He wanted 
to gather all men everywhere into one great Family, and so 
He gave us the Christ- Church or Christian Church.. The 
Church is God's earthly home for His great Family. The 
New Testament tells us how this Church began. First, 
there was our Blessed Lord, and then after His Ascension, 
some Disciples became the Bishops of the Church. They 
could not do all the work, and so they chose others to help 
them, and these ministers were some of them Priests and 
some Deacons. Ever since that time the Church has had 
such ministers, and they have taught us about God and 
Christ. Then we have the Church Year, the Prayer Book, 
and the Bible, the Altar, and the Font for Baptism, all 
these we have because we are the Inheritors of God's earthly 
Kingdom, the Church. 

One of these days, when we come to die, we shall go 
into God's Kingdom in Heaven. There we shall have a 
great many more wonderful things than belong to us here 
on earth. When we look up into the starry sky we know 
that it stretches far away beyond our sight or knowledge. 
But we shall one day understand all about the stars and 
the other worlds that God our Father has made. 

All this shall belong to us because we are God's child- 
ren as the Catechism tells us. 

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I. — Eeview Questions. 
{To he Ansivered Orally in Class.) 

1. Can you tell me one of the chief points yon learned 

in the first lesson story ? 

2. In the second lesson story? 

3. What is it to be a member of Christ ? 

II. — Questions tor Home Study. 

{To he Answered in Writing if possihle.) 

1. Why does God want you to be baptized? 

2. Are other children His, as well as you? 

3. Why do we send missionaries all over the world? 

4. What has God created ? Name some things if you can. 

5. Has He made anything but what we see about us ? 

6. Can you love and think about God? 

7. What do you know about the story of young Samuel ? 

8. What is God^s Church given us for? 

9. Does the Church give us anything? 

10. If God has made all these things for us, are we His 

Heirs ? 

11. What does it mean to say we inherit something from 

our father ? 



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CHAPTER IV. 



What God's Children Promise to 
l^enounce. 

A. — The Devil and All His WorTcs. 
Memory Wokk to be Learned at Home. 

3. Q. What did your Sponsors then for you? 

A. They did promise and vow three things in my name : 
First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, 
the pomps and vanity of this wicked world, and all the 
sinful lusts of the flesh; Secondly, that I should believe 
all the Articles of the Christian Faith ; And Thirdly, that 
I should keep God^s holy will and commandments, and 
walk in the same all the days of my life. 

4. Q. Dost thou not thinh that thou art hound to he- 
lieve, arid to do, as they have promised for theef 

A. Yes, verily; and by God^s help so I will. And I 
heartily thank our heavenly Father, that He hath called 
me to this state of salvation, through Jesus Christ our 
Saviour. And I pray unto God to give me His grace, that 
I may continue in the same unto my life's end. 

Explanation of Words. 

3. Vow is a Sacred Promise made to God. 

In my Name, that is for me, or in my place. 

Renounce is to fight against, not to be led by. 

Pomps and Vanities are the Sinful Worldly Pleas- 
ures: Pomps, the things done merely for show: Vanities, 
the things empty of any real good or helpfulness. 

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Articles of the Christian Faith means the Twelve 
Articles or Claiises or Parts of the Apostles' Creed. 

Walk in the same means to obey God, always. 
4. Verily means, trnly, certainly. 

Called me to, or given me a share in. 

State of Salvation. When water is frozen it is in an 
icy condition or state. When people are wicked they are 
in condition or state where they may grow worse and worse 
and be lost. So a state of salvation is a condition in which 
everything helps us to he good. 

Grace means God's Help, Favor, Good Will, or In- 
clination to US. 

The Lessoit Story. 

It is a wonderful thing to be the child of God Who 
made heaven and earth. We sometimes forget this be- 
cause we only think of ourselves as living here on earth. 
So God tells of heaven and all this wonderful universe 
to make us know how great it must be to be the children of 
so great a Father. 

When you look up into the sky at night, remember that 
this earth where we now live is only one of hundreds and 
thousands of worlds which fill the sky. It is right for us 
to think of all these beautiful things which belong to our 
Father, and so belong to us, just as a little boy knows that 
the home where he lives with his parents, and all that 
belongs to them, belongs also to him and to his brothers 
and sisters. 

So our life here on earth is a kind of preparation for 
that wonderful life which we shall one day have in heaven. 
Here we are at school, learning many things, and so we 
ought to be careful and do our work well. Then we shall 

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be ready when the time comes, for passing on to the other 
and higher departments of God's school. 




CHRIST KNOCKING AT THE DOOR. (Hofmann.) 



When yon were baptized, yonr parents or God-parents 
promised to teach yon all this. 

First, they promised that yon shonld renounce some- 
thing. The Catechism tells ns what this is: the Devil 



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and all his worJcs; the pomps and vanities of this wicTced 
world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh. 
Now let us see what these words mean: 

1. Renounce means that you speak out boldly against 
sotoe person or thing. If, for example, someone wants you 
to do wrong, and you boldly say, I will not, that means 
that you refuse to follow him as a leader. He announces 
or declares, that he wants you to do something, and tells 
others that he is sure you will : you rejiounce him, and tell 
others that 3^ou will not. In the Baptism Service your 
God-parents promised for you that you would not follow 
the Devil, nor he led hy him. 

2. But who is the Devil? 

Jesus tells us that the Divine Father is Lard of heaven 
and earth. But we know that there are wicked men in 
the world who do not obey God. So there are wicked 
angels who refuse to do the Father's will, just as there 
are holy angels, like S. Gabriel, who came to the Blessed 
Virgin Mary to tell her of our Saviour's Birth. We can- 
not see these angels, just as we cannot see God, with our 
earthly eyes. But such evil spirits may influence us though 
we cannot see them. We are told that the good angels of 
God are sometimes sent to help us. We pray God to let 
them help us in the Prayer for S. Michael and All Angels' 
Day. You will find this Collect or Prayer on page 214 
of the Prayer Book. 

Plow does God and the good angels help us? 

By putting into our heart good desires. In the Hymnal 
there is a beautiful hymn that tells of this— No. 375 : 
1 Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed 
His teiyier, last farewell, 
A Guide, a Comforter, bequeathed 
With us to dwell. 

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2 He came sweet influence to impart, 

A gracious, willing guest, 
While He can find one humble heart 
Wherein to rest. 

3 And His that gentle voice we hear, 

Soft as the breath of even, 
That checks each thought, that calms each fear. 
And speaks of heaven. 

4 And every virtue we possess, 

And every victory won. 
And every thought of holiness 
Are His alone. 

5 Spirit of purity and grace. 

Our weakness, pitying, see : 
Oh, make our hearts Thy dwelling-place. 
And worthier Thee. 

So we know that this great evil spirit, the Devil, can 
influence ns, even though we cannot see him, and Jesiis 
teaches ns to resist ever}^ evil influence or thought. Sup- 
pose you are tempted to be selfish, then go at once and do 
some kind action. Suppose you are tempted to be angry, 
go and be gentle to someone else, and think how you can 
serve tliem. 

If someone injures you, forgive them and try to be 
specially kind to them. 

I. — ^Eeview Questions. 

(To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. Why does God want every person baptized? 

2. !N"ame some of God^s creations. 

3. What do you remember about young Samuel? 

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II. — Questions for Home Study. 
{To he Answered in Wanting, if possible.) 

1. Is this earthly home the only place in which we shall 

ever live ? 
3. If yon ever go to the High School, what mnst yon do 

now? 

3. What does Sponsor mean ? 

4. Did yon have any sponsors when yon were baptized? 

5. What does Renounce mean? 

6. What do we call the Evil Spirit? 

7. What does Jesns say abont angels ? 

8. How does God speak to ns ? 

9. Can yon tell me what Jesns promised to send ns ? 
10. Eepeat the verses of Hymn 375. 



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CHAPTER V. 



What God's Children Promise to 
Renounce 

B. — The Pomps and Vanities of this Wicked World. 
Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

Hymn 375, verses 1-4 inclusive. ^^Our Blest Eedeemer, 
ere He breathed." (Hymnal.) 





THE V7TD0W AND HER MITE. (Bida.) 

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The Lesson" Story. 

Before y.ou read this story, take your Bible, and read 
the story of the Poor Widow and her gift, in the twenty- 
first chapter of St. Luke's Gospel — the first four verses. 

The Catechism tells us that we are to renounce the 
pomps and vanities of this wicked world. What are 
pomps and vanities f These are things that are done only 
for empty show. Suppose you wanted people to think you 
very much better than you really are, and you should give 
money just for pride. 

Suppose you give a great deal more than some others, 
so that people may talk about you, and say how very gen- 
erous and good you are : this would be doing for show, for 
pomp, to be looked at and spoken about. It would not be a 
generous and noble action, but full of selfish pride. 

Eemember the world is not itself wicked, but the people 
in it who do selfish and wicked things. It is the wrong 
and wicked and selfish things that make God's beau- 
tiful world wicked; just as it is in your own home. 
Some day, you know, a child may be disobedient and un- 
kind, and all the brightness goes out of the home, and 
everyone is full of unhappiness. It is our hearts, our own 
unkindness, our own careless and naughty actions that 
make such days dark. 

Just so it is idleness and wasting our time that makes 
our school days so full of trouble. When our hearts are 
loving and faithful, and we do our duty, then there is 
brightness and gladness everywhere. 

Sinful lusts mean sinful desires: desires for things 
that we should not have. It is not wj-ong to want money, 
but it would be wrong to steal it. It is not wrong to want 

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food for our bodies because if we had none we should starve, 
but it would be wrong to eat so greedily, to drink as drunk- 
ards do, so as to ruin our health and waste our lives. 

Boys should remember that very often they want to do 
whatever they see older persons do. So you see boys smok- 
ing cigarettes because men smoke them. But what a man 
may do often, without much harm, may be bad for growing 
boys. And thus the boy would be abusing his body, and 
committing a sin against his flesh, or body, by doing what a 
boy has no right to do. 

This body of ours is very wonderful. In it, there is 
our Brain, by which we think and learn: our Heart that 
feeds our Brain with fresh, bright blood: our Stomach, 
that takes the food and turns it into blood and strength and 
life: our Hands and Feet, by which we walk and work. 
God gives us this wonderful Body in which our Soul lives. 
So we must keep it sacred, and protect it from abuse and 
injury, because it is the House of our Life, and we are to 
live in it all the years we remain here on earth. When we 
abuse our Body we sin against it, just as when we tell lies, 
and give way to selfishness and unkindness, and indulge in 
anger or cruel speech, we sin against our souls. 

The Catechism tells us we are to serve Christ. It will 
be much easier to serve Christ if we remember that He goes 
before us as our Leader, and we follow Him as soldiers. 
The first thing a soldier does is to obey, and do his duty 
cheerfully. 

When we were baptized, God^s minister signed us with 
the sign of the Cross, in token "that hereafter we should not 
be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and 
manfully to fight under His banner, against sin, the world, 

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and the Devil; and to continue Christ's faithful soldiers 
and servants unto our life's end." 

I. — Review Questions. 

{To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. Who are your Sponsors? 

2. What does "renounce'^ mean? 

3. What did our dear Lord promise to send us? 

II.^Questions for Home Study. 
(To he Answered in Writing, if possihle.) 

1. Can you tell me the Story of the Widow and her mite ? 

2. Was she proud ? Was the rich man ? 

3. What does it mean, to do things for show? 

4. What are some things that make the world wiched? 

5. Is it wrong to want money ? Marhles f 

6. Tell me about wanting money or marhles in a wrong 

way. 

7. Can you think of other things that boys should not 

want ? 

8. Tell me about your Body, and how you should treat it. 



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CHAPTEE VI. 



What God's Children Promise 

Memory Work to be Learj^ed at Home. 

Hymn 563. ^^Saviour ! teach me, day by day." 
(Hymnal.) 

The Lesson Story. 

In the last chapter we told what a child of God 
renounces. Now we are to tell about what he is to believe 
and do. The Devil is that evil spirit that always trys 
to l6ad us astray. He suggests bad thoughts. He gets 
many people to follow him, and then he tries to make us 
follow them. Many of our bad actions are done because 
we like to do as others do, and because every one of us has 
some weakness or sinfulness in our own hearts that has 
come to us from our parents. You know, for example, 
that very often children have hasty tempers, just as on a 
rough and poor apple tree you find small, gnarly apples. 
But suppose you want to make those apples large and beau- 
tiful. You dig about the tree, and prune away bad limbs 
or branches, and do everything you can to improve it. So 
little by little the tree is made better until the apples be- 
come juicy and perfect. This is what we might call the 
training of the tree. 

Just so we take a child and train him or educate him. 
But children are very different from trees. The tree can- 
not think for itself, and the child can. The tree cannot 
choose or act for itself, and the child can. And so if we 
can make the child good and true, then he will do good 
deeds and think and speak the truth. These good deeds 

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and words are what we may call the fruit of the child's life, 
just as apples or grapes are the fruit of trees or vines. 

1. But hoiv shall we train the child? 

We said that a child must himself do something. The 
Catechism tells us that not only must he renounce the 
Devil, hut he must Believe in God, and then Obey, or keep, 
God's holy will and commandments. This first thing is to 




OUR LOED JESUS AS A CPiiLD. (Hofmann.) 

Believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith. What if, 
when you began school as a little child, they let you into the 
school building, and gave you a chair and desk with other 
children in the class-room, and you all sat there waiting 
for the teacher. By and by she came in and took her 
place, and you waited for her to say something. At last 
you got tired, and asked her what you should do, and if 
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was nothing to teach you. You wondered why, and she 
said she did not know very much to tell you, and that it 
was not necessary for you to believe anything unless you 
wanted to. You need not believe anything because no one 
really knew anything. 

Such a school would not be a school, for a school means 
that there is something to be learned and believed. Be- 
lieving is the first step in learning, and learning is the 
only way by which we can become better than the most ig- 
norant savages. And so our holy mother, the Church, 
says that we must be taught all the Articles of the Christ- 
ian Faith. TKese Articles are the little separate parts 
of the Creed. Just as you break up a long poem or hymn 
into verses, and learn it verse by verse, so we break up the 
Creed into articles, or small sentences, and so learn them. 
Every article is important, because all of them put to- 
gether make up the whole creed. 

And we are to helieve these, just as we believe the lessons 
about Geography and Arithmetic in the public school. 
We believe about England and France, about New York 
and San Francisco, and in the same way we believe about 
God and our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit of 
God; and also about the Church and her Ministers and 
about the Sacraments of Holy Baptism and the Lord^s 
Supper. 

Then there is the third vow, to "keep God^s Holy Will 
and Commandments." That is what might be called "the 
doing side" of Christianity. It is the "positive" life, as 
opposed to the "negative" life. The first vow, renunciation 
of sin, was not doing wrong — not being bad. This is much 
more. It is looking out continually for opportunities for 
doing some real good and some loving service to others in 

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the worlds Just because we are God's children, and He has 
been so kind and loving to ns. 

We wonld not think much of a boy who, though he 
never used bad words, nor became angry, nor told untruths, 
yet never put himself out to be kind to his parents, to help 
some little lame boy across the street, to take some Christ- 
mas present to some little poor child he heard of. That is 
why we have all our Church Societies, such as the Brother- 
hood of St. Andrew, the Girls' Friendly Society, the various 
Missionary Societies, Junior Auxiliaries, etc. ■ It is to give 
evei'y boy and girl a chance to ''do'' something worth while, 
for other people and to not be selfish in the enjoyment of 
God's goodness. 

You should belong to some such guild or society fitted 
to your sex and age, else you are not carrying out this third 
vow, as God wants you to. It is no more your teacher's 
duty to come each Sunday and teach than it is your duty to 
do something whenever you are able to make the people 
around you happier and the world better for your being 
in it. 

I. — Eeview Questioj^s. 
(To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. How are we members of Christ? 

2. Why is Holy Baptism "neccsFary to salvation"? 

3. What was the difference in God's sight between the 

Eich Man and the Widow, in the -Story? 

4. What are some sins that tempt you ? 

5. Why should you treat your body reverently? 

II. — Questions eor Home Study. 
(To he Answered in Writing,, if possible.) 
1. What does a child of God renounce? 

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2. Who tempts us to do wrong ? 

3. How are children sometimes like poor apple trees? 

4. How do we make the apples better? 

5. How do we train children? 

6. What does the Catechism tell ns we must believe 

and do ? 

7. What do we have to learn ? 

8. What do you do in school ? 

9. What does the word Article mean. 

10. How are you obeying the third vow you took at your 
Baptism ? 



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DIVISION II. OF CATECHISM. 



The Creed, the Body or Foundation of God's Church. 

The Nave. — Looking from the Church Door, towards 
the altar, you see the main part of- the Chnrch about you, 
and the ceiling high over head, supported with columns 
or heavy walls. This is called the Nave, and why? Did 
you ever see a boat ? You know how along the bottom of 
it runs a strong piece of wood. This is the keel, and all 
the frame-work of the boat is built into this, just as your 
ribs grow out of your backbone. If you broke your back, 
you could not live, or if you lived, you would be a cripple. 
So if you broke the keel of the ship, you could not sail 
or use it. 

Now do you remember the story of the Ark which 
Noah built in which he and his family were saved from 
the Flood? This is the reason why the Church is called 
the Ark in which we are saved in our* journey through 
this world, and brought in safety to our Heavenly Home. 

But in the old days, when the Christian Church was 
Just beginning in Europe, they spoke the Latin language 
just as we do the English. And their name for ship was 
Navis. So when they builded their great churches, it 
seemed as if the roof of the church was something like a 
big ship with its keel up above, and strong side beams 
growing out of it, and so they called the main part of the 
Church the Nave. 

Just as the ship has the keel, so the Church Building 
has the strong roof -beam with its frame-work running out 
from both sides to hold the Church together. So the Church 
herself has to have something like a keel or roof-beam, 

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THE I^AVE, Wli^CHESTER CATHEDRAL. 



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from which ever3'thing grows. This is the Creed. For 
in the Creed we declare what our Faith is. 

So the Creed is the thing that keeps the Church to- 
gether. Why so? Because it tells what sort of a God 
we worship. If He is a good, loving wise God, and if He 
watches over us, and is the one great God and Father of 
all men, then we know that we can worship and trust Him. 
If we did not know what the Creed tells us about God, and 
Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, nor how God gives us 
the Bible and the Church, and the Life Everlasting, then 
we should be just as badly off as the heathen who know 
nothing of Christ. We could not break the keel of the ship 
without wrecking it; nor our backbone without terrible 
injury — so we cannot give up the Creed without injury to 
our souls. 

Now you can understand why the congregation gathers 
in the Xave, although some can sit in the Transepts also. 
They are all under this same great roo'f, and there listen 
to God's Word and worship together. They believe the 
same Creed and have the same Faith, and read the same 
Bible and offer the same Prayers. It is the largest part of 
the Church because here the largest number must have 
room to meet together. 

Sometimes great pillars support the roof and the side 
walls have windows full of picture glass. These windows 
tell of the many wonderful things in our Saviour's life. 
At the head of the Xave stands the Pulpit where the min- 
ister teaches the people, and the Lectern on the opposite 
side where the Holy Bible is read. All that we say or do in 
Church is held fast together by the strong Creed which we 
believe. 



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CHAPTER VII. 



What God's Children Do. 

Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

Hymn 577, verses 1-4 inclusive. "In the vineyard of 
our Father." (Hymnal.) 

The Lesson Story. 

1. We are to Oley or Keep God's holy Will and Com- 
mandments. 

Think again of the School we spoke about. What if 
a child should say, "I will not do my work, nor obey the 
rules of the school unless I want to do so." What would 
be the result ? 

First, he would not learn, and thus he would grow up 
in ignorance. 

Second, he would grow up a lazy and wilful boy. His 
life would be wasted and men could not trust him. 

Third, he would lose his strength of character, and in- 
stead of a strong and noble man, he would become un- 
worthy, and fall into all sorts of temptations. 

You must remember that there is no time when we can 
learn the lessons of obedience and faithfulness so well as 
when we are young. We may think it is very hard to study 
when we do not want to, to be faithful at our school, or 
obedient to our parents and teachers, when we want to go 
off about something else. But then this is the very thing 
that helps us, and makes us strong. 

If a boy or girl had everything they wanted and were 
never obliged to go without, to deny themselves, to do 
hard tasks, and to obey just because it was right to obey, 

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OUR GOOD SHEPHERD. (Plochhorst.) 



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if fathers and mothers always saved their children from 
every little hardship, then they would never grow to be 
strong. It is effort and work and obedience and study that 
make ns strong. 




JESUS, THE GOOD SHEPHERD. 



The reason why many children grow up selfish and care- 
less and go to the bad, is because they were always indulged 
or given what they wanted. It is not good for us to have 
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of getting and learning, that makes lis value the things 
we finally get. 

2. The fourth question in the Catechism, you must 
carefull}^ learn. Dost tliou not thinh that thou art hound 
to helieve, and to do, as they have promised for thee? 

The answer is: Yes, verily: and hy God' help so I ivill. 
And I heartily thanh our Heavenly Father, that He hath 
called me to this state of salvation, through Jesus Christ 
our Saviour, and I pray unto God to give me His grace, 
that I may continue in the same unto my life's end. 

I shall not say much about this. But remember all that 
we have read about God's wonderful life, here on earth, 
and in the many worlds all through the sky; and remem- 
ber that Jesus Christ tells us that this life on earth is 
only the beginning. Every lesson we learn is just so much 
help in making us strong and wise, and all the happiness 
of our lives comes from doing our work faithfully and well. 
Then we ought to be very thankful for knowing all this, 
and do our Father's will. 

1. — Eeview Questions. 

{To he Ansiuered Orally in Class.) 

1. What is the meaning of a Font placed at the entrance 

of the Church? 

2. What kind of sins are you to renounce? Why? 

3. What are "the articles of our belief" ? 

4. What example of Baptism in the. Bible do you remem- 

ber? 

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II. — Questions for Home Study. 
{To he Answered in Writing, if possible.) 

1. What is it that a child has to do in school? 

2. What does Obey mean? 

3. When is the easiest time to learn to obey ? 

4. Is it good for lis to have everything we want ? 

5. Are we bound to believe and love God? 

G. What will God do for ns if we learn to believe and 
obey Him? 



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What God'« Children are Taught in 
the Father's House 

A. — Belief in God the Father and God the Son. 

Memory Work to be Learn-ed at Home. 
5. Q. Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief. 

ANSWER. 

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven 
and earth : 

And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord, who was 
conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary: 
Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and 
buried: He descended into hell; The third day He rose 
again from the dead: He ascended into heaven: And 
sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty: 
From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the 
dead. 

I believe in the Holy Ghost : The holy Catholic Church ; 
The Communion of Saints: The Forgiveness of sins: The 
Eesurrection of the body : And the Life everlasting. Amen. 

EXPLAN-ATION" OF WORDS. 

5. Rehearse, that is Eepeat. - 

Articles of Thy Belief, means the same as "Articles 
of the Christian Faith," that is to say, the Creed. 

Creed; so called from first word of it in Latin, Credo, 
I believe. 

Almighty, means All-Powerful. 

Descended, went down. 

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Hell, here means the Place of Departed Spirits, or 
Paradise; that is where our souls go after Death, before 
the Last Great Judgment Day. 

Ascended, went up. 

Right Hand of God, means Place of Honor and 
Power. God is a Spirit and has mo Body nor Hands. 

The Quick means the living, those who are quick and 
alive, or lively. 

Catholic means universal, or existing everywhere. It 
is the name by which the Church has been, called ever since 
the second Christian century. 

Saints, all holy people, alive or dead. 

The Lesson" Story. 

The Catechism tells us that we are to learn, first, the 
Creed, which begins with the words I believe. This is the 
first lesson put into our hands, and we should commit it 
to memory just so soon as we can. We may not be able to 
understand some of its words, but these will all be made 
plain after awhile. During these years when you are going 
to school it is very easy for you to commit things to mem- 
ory. And those things you learn when a child are never 
quite forgotten. The first thing to do in learning is to 
coinmit to memory— as for example, we must know our 
letters, and how to spell the words we use, or else we can 
neither read nor write. So in God's School we must 
learn the Creed by heart, because this tells us in a few 
simple words what we are to believe. After we have 
learned the' words of the Creed, then we can learn more 
and more what all thesg^each us. ^ 

So the Catechism says: What dost thou chiefly learn 

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in these Articles of thy Belief? First: I learn to believe in 
God the Father^ who hath made me and all the world. 

Many hundreds of years ago men believed that there 
were many gods for them to worship. Each nation thought 
its own gods cared more for its people than they did for 
others. And so they worshipped their own gods, and 
despised those of other nations. But we believe in one 
great God, and we may call Him the All-Father, because He 
made not only ns, but all people, the earth and the sky with 
its hundreds and hundreds of stars. There is no place in 
all the earth and slry where God is not present, and nothing 
that He has not made. This is .the reason why we ought 
to honor and love Him ourselves, because He has made us 
in His Image, with hearts and minds to understand Him, 
and with souls that are to go on and live forever with Him 
after our death. 

Secondly: I believe in God the Son, who hath redeemed 
me and all mankind. 

We call our Blessed Lord, the Son of God. What does 
this mean? You remember that when the angel, S. 
Gabriel, promised the Blessed Virgin Mary that she should 
be the mother of a little Child, he told her that this Child 
was to be "the Son of God." When Jesus was born. He 
was not only S. Mary's Son, but the very God Himself. 
This was the reason why the angels came and sung in the 
night that He was born. And this was the reason why, 
when He grew to be a man. He was so wise and wonderful, 
why He lived so beautiful a life and did those great 
miracles. You know He healed the sick, and raised people 
from the dead, and knew what was in men's hearts and 
could understand all the sorrows and troubles of others. 
And this is why the Devil tried so hard to tempt Him to 

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do wrong. You remember when He came to die, He did 
it for our sakes, because He could bear in His own suffer- 
ing heart and body the sins and sorrows and sufferings 




JESUS HEALING THE SICK. {Hofmaun.) 



of all the whole world. It was in this way that He re- 
deemed us and all mankind. 

We know that we can help each other. Some of us can 
help more than others, because we are stronger or know 
better how to do it. But because Jesus is the Son of God, 
as the Creed says, He can help and love and save the whole 
world. Then, after they laid His Body in the grave. He 

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rose again on Easter Morning, because death could not 
keep in the grave the Body of God's Son. This He did, 
to sliow us and all men everywhere that God is greater than 
death, and that our souls, which are made in the image of 




THE RISEN SAVIOUR. (PlocMorst.) 

God, are immortal, and will live on after death just as does 
our Saviour the Son of God. 

In the Creed we say : "I believe in the Eesurrection of 
the body and the Life Everlasting." We cannot, of course, 
understand all that this means, but we believe it. Just 
as Christmas tells us of the Birth of God's Son, so Easter 
tells us how He rose from the dead. 

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Here are some very beautiful verses for 3^011 to learn by 
heart, from Hymn 537 : 

Glory to the blessM Jesus! 

Who for us was born. 
In the stable, cold and poor, 

On glad Christmas morn. 

2 Glory to the blessed Jesus ! 

Who was crucified 
On Good Friday for our sins: 
Loving us He died. 

3 Glory to the blessed Jesus ! 

Who for sinners lay 

In the tomb, and rose upon 

Happy Easter Day. 

4 Glory to the blessed Jesus! 

He, Who is our Way, 
Went up in a cloud to heaven. 
On Ascension day. 

5 Glory to the blessed Jesus ! 

Who, at Whitsuntide, 
Sent His Holy Spirit down. 
With us to abide. 

6 Glory to the blessed Jesus ! 

We will praise His love. 
All our days on earth below, 
And for aye above. 

I. — Eeview Questions. 

{To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. What is it to obey God? To disobey Him? 

2. Why is it not enough to be good and do no sin and 

believe in God? 

3. _Why is it any more your teacher's duty to teach than 

it is your's to do something every day to help others ? 

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II. — Questions for Home Study. 
{To he Ansivered in Writing, if possible.) 

1. Can you say the Creed ? 

2. What do yoii learn in the Public School ? 

3. What do you study in God's School? 

4. What do you learn about God the Father ? 

5. What about God the Son? 

6. What about God the Holy Ghost? 

7. Why could Jesus love the whole world ? 

8. How did He show His love ? 

9. Can you repeat the Hymn '^Glory to the Blessed 

Jesus ? 



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What God's Children are Taught in 
the Father's House 

B. — Belief in God the Holy Spirit. 
Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

6. Q. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles 
of thy Belief? 

A. First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who 
hath made me, and all the world. 

Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me, and 
all mankind. 

Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me, 
and all the people of God. 

Explanation" of Words. 

6. Create is to make something out of nothing. 

Redeem is to buy back. Christ bought us back by 
His Death, from the Power of Satan. 

Sanctify is to make holy. 

The Father is the Creator; the Son, the Redeemer; 
the Holy Ghost, the Sanctifier, of us all. 

Ti-iE Lesson Story. 

The Creed has three large divisions — the first, which 
tells of God; the second, which tells of Jesus Christ; and 
the third, which tells of the Holy Ghost, or Spirit. Let' 
us now read about these words in the Catechism. 

Thirdly: I believe in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctir 
fieth me, and all the people of God. • 

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When Jesus was preparing to leave the earth, He told 
His Disciples that He would send to them the Holy Spirit 
of God to comfort them and guide them. Ever since 
then this same Spirit of God has been with us, as you 
learned in Hymn 375. 

But what does this Spirit do for us ? 

He influences us. It is in this way that Gqd speaks 
to us. You know hgw, when Jfesus left His Disciples, He 
told them to go and preach His Gospel, and gather the 
whole world, into His Church. This is the reason why we 
say in the Creed that we believe in the Holy Catholic 
Church. That means the Church of- God which He has 
set up in the world, to make men good and holy, and not 
a few men only, but every man in all the earth. 

Remember what this word "Catholic" means. God's 
Church is catholic or universal, hecause it exists everywhere 
throughout the world to teach us the truth about God the 
Universal Father, the Father of every man. There is no 
man that ever lived or will ever live who is not God's child. 
Then suppose you were to gather together everyone in the 
world and wanted to teach th«n of God, you would tell 
the same thing to the Chinaman and Japanese that you 
would to the Englishman or German. God's truth is true 
for everybody, and so God's Church is the Church to help 
teach everybody, everywhere and always. That is why we 
call it the ''Holy Catholic Church." 

This is the reason why, when you were a little child, you 
were baptized and enrolled in God's Holy Church, and 
are now taught all these things about religion. It is im- 
possible to know about God and Jesus without study. In 
your Day School you have books which you cannot know 
unless you study them, and so in God's School, the Church, 

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He gives us the Holy Bible, the Prayer Book and Hymnal, 
and other things to study. If a boy wants to grow up an 




JESUS AT TWELVE IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSE^ THE TEMPLE. 

(Ilofmann.) 



intelligent citizen of the United States, he must be willing 
to work at his lessons. The same is true of the religious 
lessons which the Church teaches her children. 

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We think of our Blessed Lord as a Man, a great and 
wise Teacher, but we must never forget that He was a 
Boy first, and a pnpil at school with other children, learn- 
ing the same lessons, studying the same books with them. 
He could not have been a wise man if He had not first been 
a thoughtful 'and earnest boy. 

The picture by Hofmann (on previous page) shows 
Him as He sat in the Temple with the Doctors or Teach- 
ers, asking them questions, and answering the questions 
they put to Him. He was then twelve years old. 

Just as our Blessed Lord learned all about the Jewish 
Church, so we must learn about the Christian Church. 

I. — Eeview Questions. 
{To he Answered O^^ally in Class.) 

1. What does the second part of the Catechism deal with ? 

2. What is the Apostles' Creed? Are there any other 

Creeds? What, if any? 

3. How does Jesus show His love for you? 

11. — Questions for Home Study. 
{To he Answered in Writing, if possible.) 

1. What does the third part of the Creed teach us? 

2. How does God speak to our hearts ? 

3. What did Jesus set up in the world to teach us His 

truth? 

4. Can you tell me what the word ^^Catholic" means ? 

5. What sort of a school did Jesus attend when a boy? 

6. What Book did He study? 

7. Do we study the same Book? 

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8. How old was He when He went to Jerusalem with 

His parents ? 

9. How is it that He knew all these things about which 

He talked with the Doctors? 



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The Commandments, the Worh of God's Church. 

The Transepts. — When you see a Cross on the roof or 
tower of any building, yon at once know that it is a 




TRANSEPT OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, LANSDOWNE, PA. 

chnrch, or some bnilding nsed for religions purposes. The 
Cross is the symbol or sign of Christ and His Church. 
For hundreds of years it has been very common for Christ- 
ians to build churches in the form of a Cross. They did 

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this because they wanted the very Church building itself 
shaped like the Cross on which our Lord died. Now in 
such a Church the arms of the Cross are called Transepts. 
They stretch out on either side, and represent the way our 
Lord upon the Cross stretched out His Arms over all the 
world, as if He wanted to embrace all men everywhere. 

Now what part of the Catechism shall we place here? 
The Ten Commandments, and why? Because these are 



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THE GOOD SAMARITAN". 



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for all men. They tell us what all men must know and 
do. They tell us our duty towards God, and our duty 
towards each other. Then you must remember how our 
Lord, one day, explained that all these Ten Command- 
ments mean just these few simple words : 

''Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, 
and with all thy soul, and vnth all thy mind. This is the 
■first and great commandment. And the second is lihe 
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these two commandments hang all the Law and the 
Prophets/'' 

You will find the story of the Good Samaritan in the 
Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 10, verses 25 to 37. 

The Church's Arms are to be extended in doing good 
to everyone of God's children. 

The love of God for all mankind, the charity and sacri- 
fice of Jesus, the message of the Church, told by mission- 
aries through all the world, this is shown us in the out- 
stretching Arms, or Transepts, of the Cross. When you 
learn these Ten Commandments, you must remember that 
you could never have known how much they mean but for 
Christ upon His Cross. Every duty we have towards 
God, and every unselfish service we can give to each other 
in the Name of Christ, we may learn as we stand under the 
Transepts. 



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CHAPTER X. 



Heavenly Duties 

Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

7. Q. You said that your Sponsors did promise for 
you, that you should heep God's Commandments. Tell me 
how many there are? 

A. Ten. 

8. Q. Which are they? 

ANSWER. 

The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of 
Exodus, saying, I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee 
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 

I. Thou shalt have none other gods but Me. 

II. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, 
nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or 
in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth ; thou 
shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them; for I the 
Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the 
fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth gen- 
eration of them that hate me ; and show mercy unto thou- 
sands in them that love me and keep my commandments. 

III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy 
God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless, 
that taketh his Name in vain. 

IV. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day. 
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to 
do ; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 
In it thou shalt do no manner of work ; thou, and thy son, 
and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and they maid-servant, 

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thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For 
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and 
all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore 
the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it. 

9. Q. What dost thou chiefly learn hy these Command- 
ments ? 

A. I learn two things ; my duty towards God, and my 
duty towards my Neighbour. 

10. Q. What is thy duty toivards God'? 

A. My duty towards God is To believe in Him, to fear 
Him, And to love Him with all my heart, with all my 
mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength : to wor- 
ship Him, to give Him thanks: to put my whole trust in 
Him, to call upon Him : to honour His holy Name and His 
Word : And to serve Him truly all the days of my life. 

Explanation of Words. 

8. Exodus the Name of the Second Book in the Bible. 
House of Bondage means Place of Slavery. 

II. Make to thyself, that is make for thyself, to worship it. 
Graven Image, is any idol formed of wood, stone, 

metal, etc., to be worshipped, or prayed to. 

Likeness is a Picture only. 

Jealous God. God is jealous or anxious that for our 
own sakes we should not worship any false god. 

Visit the Sins. Cause the Children to suffer the con- 
sequences (not the punishment) of the fathers' sins. 

Generation. The children, grandchildren, etc. 

III. Talcing God's Name in vain means any form of Pro- 
fanity, Swearing, Cursing, Blasphemy, or Irreverence. 

Not hold guiltless means will be held guilty, and pun- 
ished. 

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5^ears. But after His Ascension, the Apostles went every- 
lY. Sahhath Day, Seventh Day, Eest Day, Saturday. 
Sunday is the First Day of the Wook, the Lord's Day. It 
is not the Sahhath, but is kept by Christians in place of 
the Sabbath. 

Hallowed it. Set it apart as holy. 
9. Chiefly learn means mainly or principally or specially 
learn. 

The Lesson Story. 

When you were baptized, your sponsors, or God-parents, 
promised that you should learn the Creed, the Lord's 
Prayer, and the Ten Commandments. You have been 
told about the Creed. Now let us think about the Ten 
Commandments. Long before our Saviour was born, the 
Jews were taught by wise men what they should do. You 
will find these Commandments in the twentieth chapter of 
the Book of Exodus. God gave them to His people 
through Moses, the great man who delivered them from 
slavery in Egypt, and led them through the wilderness, 
until at last they came to the promised Land of Palestine. 
This was a great many hundreds of years ago, long before 
the Birth of Jesus, long before the Christian Church was 
started, and so long before the Creed was written, or the 
Lord's Prayer was taught the Disciples. 

Here is a picture which tells us how these Command- 
ments came down to us. They belong to us, just as much 
as they did to the Jewish people, many centuries ago. 

Down at the bottom of the Tree is the old Jewish 
Church, to which God taught these Commandments, and 
then after many years Jesus came. He was 30 years old 
when He began His ministry, which only lasted about three 

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where, preaching and establishing the Christian Church. 
So after about forty years the new Church of Christ was 
fully established, or about seventy years after the Birth of 
Christ. 




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THE BIRTH OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 

Fro7n Scadding's ''Direct Answers to Plain Questions." 

It grew, you see, right out of the old Jewish Church. 
A great many things came to us from that Church — ^the 
Old Testament, or the first part of the Bible ; the Psalms, 
which we always read in our worship, and these Ten Com- 
mandments also. 

There are ten of these, which God first gave to His 
people, as you can read in the fifth chapter of the Book 
of Deuteronomy and the twenty-second verse. These Com- 

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mandments are the ten rules of life, which we are to keep, 
and you should learn them by heart. Yon know they were 
written on two stone tables or slabs. . If yon read^ them 
over yon will see that the four on the first table, tell ns 
about our duty to God, and the other six about our duty 
to each other. 

The first duties we will call our Heavenly Duties. 
What does the word Duty mean ? If someone were to bor- 
row a dollar from you, you would expect him to pay it 
back, because it is due you. If your country is in danger, 
and some other nation is coming to attack it^ then everyone 
owes it to his country to defend it. Duty to our country, 
to our parents we know. But we owe God more than we 
owe anyone else. In the services of Morning and Evening 
Prayer in the Prayer Book, pages 15 and 28, you will find 
a Collect or Prayer, called ^'A General Thanksgiving.'' 
In this prayer we bless God "for our creation, preservation, 
and all the blessings of this life ; but above all for [His] in- 
estimable love, in the redemption of the world by our Lord 
Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of 
glory.'' 

Think of all this, and you will understand what a great 
debt or duty we owe to God. 

Eead over carefully this prayer, found in the Morning 
and Evening Services, in the Prayer Book: 
A General Thanksgiving. 

ALMIGHTY God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy 
servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all 
thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; We bless 
thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this 
life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption 
of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, 
and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech thee, give us that due 

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sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly 
thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our 
lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to thy service, and 
by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days ; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy 
Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. 

In this prayer we ask God to "give us that due sense 
of all Thy mercies" that we may be thankful, and serve 
Thee and worship Thee, "all our days." 

1. Our duty is to believe that there is no other God 
but the one we worship, of whom the Bible and the Church 
tells us. In the Catechism the Church asks us, "What is 
thy duty towards God?" and the answer is: 

(1) To believe in Him, to fear Him. This does not 
mean to be afraid of Him, as one who dislikes us, and 
stands ready to injure us, but to reverence Him as a great 
and wonderful God, who has created everything in heaven 
and earth, and who loves us with a love greater than we 
can ever understand. 

You know that if you were to meet any famous man, 
like the President of the United States, or the King of 
England, you would take off your hat, and show him the 
deepest respect or reverence. You would do this all the 
more, if such a man wanted to help you, or give you some 
honor. But God is infinitely greater, and has created us 
so that we can understand and reverence Him, and live 
forever with Him in this wonderful universe. 

(2) Then to love Him with all my heart , with all my 
mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength. 

My Heart; that means the same affection with which 
we love our parents and friends. 

My Mind; that means that our love is not thoughtless 
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give, knowing and thinking what it means. Many a child, 
when he has done something wrong, says — "Oh, I did not 
mean to, I was not thinking!" God wants ns to thinlc 
about Him, and not go on heedlessly and carelessly. 

My Soul; that is, we are to love God because we are His 
immortal children. We are living here on earth for a few 
years only, it may be twenty, or forty, or sixty, years, per- 
haps. But within these bodies of ours are our souls, that 
which can never die as our bodies do, but will go on forever 
and forever. So we are to love God here on earth, remem- 
bering that after death, we shall see Him in heaven, and 
learn more and more of Him, and of all the marvellous 
things that He has made. 

My Strength; that does not mean simply the strength 
of our bodies, though it does mean this also. It is a splen- 
did thing, that when we are strong, we can do many things 
that are hard. A strong man can often bear heavy bur- 
dens, and a great deal of labor which a weak man cannot do. 

But there are sick people, and people who are frail and 
unable to carry on heavy work, and yet these may be strong 
in other ways, strong of spirit, strong of will, strong of 
purpose. 

2. Now God wants us to love and serve Him in all these 
ways. You must remember that Christ came to save the 
world from sin. He started His Church, so that it should 
go on doing the things that He Himself did, telling of 
God, teaching men to cast aside everything wrong and 
sinful, doing good works, making the world a place where 
happiness and peace, where comfort and goodness should 
be in the hearts and homes of men. And we who are God's 
children have a great deal to do in helping Christ and His 
Church. 

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I. — ^Eeview Question's. 
{To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. What do the three parts of the Creed each teach us? 

2. What is the special work of God the Father ? 

3. What do yon remember about the life of God the Son, 

when on earth? 

4. How was He different from other boys and men ? 

II. — Questions for Home Study. 
(To he Answered in Writing, if possihle.) 

1. How many Commandments are there ? 

2. Which are they? 

3. What great man first taught them to the Jewish 

people? 

4. Do you remember about the way the Christian Church 

started ? 

5. What sort of Duties do we learn from the first Four 

Commandments ? 

6. What does Duty mean ? 

7. What prayer in the Prayer Book speaks of our Duty 

to God? (p. 15.) 

8. How does the General Thanksgiving speak of our 

Duty? 

9. What is thy duty towards God? 

10. What does it mean to fear God? 

11. How should we love God? 

12. What does it mean to love God with all your Heart ? 

13. \Yith all joiiT Mind? 

14. With all your Soul? 

15. With all your Strength? 



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CHAPTER XI. 



Holy Days and Holy Places 

m Memory Wore: to be Learned at Home. 

Hymn 556. "Heavenly Father, send Thy blessing.'' 

(Hymnal.) Or Hymn 516, "Onward, Christian Soldiers," 
verses 1-3 inclusive. (Hymnal.) 

The Lesson Story. 

The Fourth Commandment tells ns that we must keep 
Sunday as a Holy Day. Even hundreds and hundreds 
of years ago, men thought that one day in seven was to be 
kept" as a day of rest, and they used to have religious wor- 
ship on this day more than on the other days. So this 
day is called a Holy Day. The Bible tells us that long ago, 
when God made the world, after all was finished. He 
rested, and rejoiced in its wonderful beauty. What does 
this mean? It means that we cannot go on working, day 
after day, without rest. It means that on that day of rest 
we should think especially of God, and give Him our wor- 
ship, and thank Him for all that He has done for the 
world and us. 

Now there are two words that we shall think about: 
Rest and Worship : 

I. Rest.— The Jews called this seventh day. Sabbath. 
Sabbath means "A Day of Rest." So if a Jewish father, 
some Sabbath morning , asked his son, "Why are we going 
to do no work to-day, but to rest and worship God?" the 
child would answer, "Because God rested from His work 
on the Seventh Day." 

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We Christians place our day of rest and worship on 
Sunday, instead of on the Sabbath or Saturday, because it 
was on Sunday that our Lord Jesus Christ rose from the 
dead. So we give honor to the Son of God, who on this 
Day ended His life of toil and sorrow, and brought joy 
and peace to the Disciples and to us also. 

How shall we rest 2 We ought to give up everything 
we can of the work of the week-day. We ought to make 
the work of others just as easy as possible. Mothers and 
fathers, who work very hard from Monday to Saturday, 
should make the Sunday work very simple. Children 
can help a great deal in this way. They can on Saturday 
night brush their clothes and clean their shoes, and in a 
thousand little ways be thoughtful and kind. Sunday is 
very often the hardest day of the whole week for many, 
just because they have to do so much for others. 

First of all, we should ask how we can lighten the 
labors of those about us. They need rest as much as we. 
It is very selfish to rob them for the sake of indulging 
ourselves. 

Then we ought to worship. One of the reasons why 
we rest from the week-day work, is that we may be able to 
do the Sunday work. This work is the Worship of God. 
But where shall we worship Him? First of all places, in 
His Church. We can pray to God in our rooms, in the 
woods and fields, for God is everywhere. But the Church 
is God^s House, as our Saviour would tell us, and there in 
the Church is His Altar, and so we go to Church to wor- 
ship. You know that when you want to learn, you go to 
school; when you want to see your friends, you go to their 
houses, and so when you worship God you go God's House. 
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CHOIR BOYS. 



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is set apart as a Holy Day. The Church is a Roly Place. 
It has been built and set apart from other buildings. ' In 
it there are many things that remind us of God and Christ. 
You see how very different this is from a ^ dwelling-house. 
The reason is that churches are built for a special use. 
Every part means something. But the most important 
parts in the Church are the Font, where you were bap- 
tized; t^e Altar, yi^ieTQ the Lord^s , Supper is cfle'ferated, 
and before which-ryou kneel when confirmed; and the Pul- 
pit, where serm(yas are preaclied. Th^n there are the 
Lectern which hioMs the Bible ; the ClioirMalls, where the 
choristers sit. 'Sometimes theje is di Litany Desk standing 
near the head of the centre aisle^ You will find the 
Litany in the Prayer Book, on page 30. You will see that 
it is a very long prayer, made up of a great many very 
short prayers. Almost everything we need is mentioned 
in the Litany. So when we say it in Church, we come 
down out of the Chancel to a special place called the 
Litany Desk, right among the people. [See diagram of a 
Church, page 3.] 

If you were in-Church at a service, you would see the 
(choristers come marching in, and taking their places in 
the Chancel or Choir. This is the big space just before the 
Altar Bcdl, where the choir-stalls are, and the Prayer Desks, 
or stalls If OR the ministers. 

The impstsacred thing in the Church is the Altar, and 
the place where it stands, behind the Communion Rail, is 
called the Sanctuary. 

If you look towards the Altar you will see that it is 
lifted up several steps higher than the floor, because it is 
the most holy object in the Church. . Behind the altar, is 
the Reredos. 

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ALTAR AND REREDOS, 
CHRIST CHURCH, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



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Now if YOU stop and think how your own Church is 
arranged, you wil see that it is divided into three main 
parts. 
! 1. The Place of the Congregation. 

This is where you and everybody sit when you attend 
Divine Worship. 
|! 2. The Place of the Choir. 

This is the Chancel, where those who serve as Ministers 
and Singers belong. You may call this the Holy 
Place. [See illustration, page 103.] 
3. The Place of the Altar. 

This is called the Sanctuary. We may also call it the 
Holy of Holies. No one goes into this place 
during Divine Service, except those who minister 
at the Altar. It is called the Holiest Place, be- 
cause the Altar is where we celebrate the Sacrifice 
of our Lord on the Cross. 
Very often you will see a Gross standing above it, 
called the Altar Cross. Sometimes you will see two candle- 
sticks, one on each side of the Altar. These are lighted 
when the Holy Communion is celebrated, and they teach us 
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God as well as the Son of 
Man, and so, as He told us, the Light of the World. 

Some churches have other candlesticks above the Altar, 
to make it more beautiful, and to show how full of light 
and joy our hearts should be because of the love of God 
to us in the gift of His Blessed Son. 

Then you will notice that the choristers and clergy 
are dressed very differently in Church from what they are 
outside. The long, black coat is called a Cassoch. The 
white robe is called a Surplice, except when it is very short, 
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clergy ; the Gotta by the choristers. These are used because 
those who wear them are engaged in sacred or religious 
duties. 





SUEPLICE AND CASSOCK. 



GIRDED ALB AND CASSOCK. 




CHASUBLE. 

You know that soldiers wear uniforms because they 
have military duties. It would be unlawful for anyone 
but a soldier to wear such a uniform. So the sacred dress 
of the clergy and choir, and those who perform Church 
duties, is worn in Church. You should not wear them, 
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There are other sacred vestments which are used in the 
Church, especially by the Priest when he celebrates the 
Holy Communion. 

The Alb is a long white linen garment, reaching nearly 
to the bottom of the cassock, and is bound about the waist 
by a white linen cord or rope. 

The Chasuble is a white linen or silk garment, some- 
time very beautifully embroidered, worn over the Alb, 
when the Priest celebrates the Lord's Supper. 

If these are worn in your Church, your Eector will ex- 
plain them to you. 

All these garments, or Vestments, as we call them, are 
worn for the same reason, because we are doing sacred 
duties, and so should wear the same garments which others 
wear in the same work. 

We can love and worship our Heavenly Father without 
any of these Vestments, of course, but it is a very noble 
and proper thing for us to make His worship beautiful in 
these beautiful garments. 

Sometimes there is a Cross borne at the head of the 
choir, and he who carries it is called the Cross-bearer, or 
Crucifer. 

Onward, Christian soldiers. 

Marching as to war, 
With the cross of Jesus 

Going on before! 
Christ the royal Master 

Leads against the foe; 
Forward into battle, 
See, His banners go. 

Onward, Christian soldiers. 

Marching as to war, 
With the cross of Jesus 
Going on before ! 

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CRUCIFER WITH PROCESSIONAL CROSS, 
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I. — ^Eeview Questions. 

{To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. What great man first taught the Commandments? 

2. What do the first four Commandments teach in gen- 

eral? 

3. What is your duty towards God? Explain it. 

II. — Questions for Home Study. 

{To he Answered in Writing, if possible.) 

1. What does the Fourth Commandment bid, us to do ? 

2. What is our Sunday to be used for ? 

3. What should we give up on Sunday ? 

4. How can you help other people to get rest on Sunday ? 

5. What does it mean to tvorship God? 

6. Where should we worship God? 

7. Can you name some of the things you find in Church ? 

8. How should we behave in Church ? 

9.^ Why does God wish this special behavior in Church? 

10. What does the Third Commandment teach us ? 

11. How should we speak of God? 

12. What do we show by our outward actions ? 

13. When did you go to Church, and who did you sit with ? 

Did your father and mother take you? 

14. The Church is very different from the Public School, 

is it not? Why? 

{Answer these Orally.) 

15. What is the Pulpit used for? 

16. Where is the Litany Desk? 

17. Where is the Font placed? 

18. Find the Altar, and tell what it is used for. 

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19. Where does the Choir sit? 

20. Why do we have the Altar Cross ? 

21. Where are the two Candlesticks placed? 

22. What kind of vestments do the clergy and choristers 

use? 

23. What is a Processional Cross? 



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CHAPTER XII. 



Earthly Duties 



Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

VI. Thou shalt do no murder. 

VII. Thou shalt not commit adaltery. 

VIII. Thou shalt not steal. 

IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy 
neighbour. 

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou 
shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor 
his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that it his. 

Explanation of Words. 

IX. Bearing Raise Witness covers all forms of Lying and 
Untruth. 

X. Covet is to wrongfully desire, to seek to obtain or get. 

The Lesson Story. 

These last five Commandments tell us what we should 
not do to those about us. Do 3^ou know that when we are 
told we must not do wrong things against our neighbors 
and friends, it really means we are to do good things ? 

If I tell you that you must not take God's Name in 
vain, I really mean that you must honor and reverence 
God. So if I tell you you must honor your father and your 
mother, I really mean that you must not dishonor them. 

In these last five Commandments we are forbidden to 
do certain things, and that means we are to do just the 
opposite, 

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And now I am going to tell you something of what 
these words mean, as yon will see. 

VI. First, you know that we have bodies in which our 
souls live. If I want to lift anything, I lift it with my 
hands. If I want to study, I do it with my brain. So if 
anyone should cut off my hands, or injure my brain, I 
could not live and do what I do now. 




Exodus XX. 



THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 

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Again, if anybody takes away my bodily life, and kills 
me, then I die just as any animal dies. My soul has no 
place to live in, on the earth. Murder is killing the body, 
and yet whenever we injure or hurt the body, we are in 
some measure committing murder, if we do it wilfully 
and with desire to hurt. 

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himself with drink; or that someone is hurting someone 
else by tempting him to injure his body. 

VII. Adultery is a sin against the body. It means in- 
dulging in wrong and evil uses of the body. God means 
for us to treat others with pure and noble thoughts in our 
hearts. We must remember that every boy should treat 
all women with noble courtesy, and behave towards them, 
just as he would act towards his own mother or sister. Let 
no boy or girl do an3rthing that they would not wish their 
father or mother to know. 

VIII. Stealing. This means taking what belongs to 
someone else, and using it as your own : 

We can steal by taking things outright. 

We can steal by cheating. 

We can steal by taking advantage of the ignorance of 
others, and so getting the better of them. Stealing really 
means getting from others something without giving them 
a fair price for it. 

IX. False witness against our neighbours means saying 
things about them that are not true. That means lying. 
Lying is one of the worst sins. If a boy lies, you cannot 
depend on him. It is just as if you tried to build a house 
in a swamp where the foundation sinks down out of sight, 
after you think you have really finished it. 

If a tree looks good and strong, and you cut it down 
and find that it is all decayed and rotten at the heart, you 
throw it aside as worthless. So a person who lies has some- 
thing rotten at the heart, and you cannot depend on what 
he says. But suppose a boy or girl lies, can they stop it? 
Of course they can. They can make up their minds to tell 
things as they really are. 

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thing very, very much, and be envious or jealous of someone 
else who has it. 

Now I am sure that all of its want a nice house, enough 
money to get what we wish, and think it would be very 
fine if we had as much as some of our friends and neigh- 
bors have. It is not wrong to want all this. 

But it is wrong to covet it. Covet means to long for 
what another has in such a way as to make us willing to 
do him some wrong in order to get it for ourselves. 

Covetousness is the seed which brings forth the harvest 
of theft and cheating. A boy envies his plaj^mate his 
marbles, and then plays in a dishonest way so as to get them 
for himself. He steals them just as much as if he had 
taken them out of the other's pockets. 

Then another thing comes from covetousness, that is, 
unhappiness. For if we indulge ourselves in envy and 
complain that others have so much and we so little, we at 
last make ourselves miserable and unhappy. 

It is right to want everything that is good and gives us 
comfort or pleasure, but it is wrong to want these things 
so much that we are willing to do wrong in order to get 
them. 

I. — Eeview Questions. 

{To be Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. Repeat the Fourth Commandment and explain it. 

2. How should you spend Sunday? Why? 

3. How should you not behave in Church ? 

4. How have you ever heard the Third Commandment 

broken ? 

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II. — Questions foe Home Study. 
{To he Answered in Writing, if possible.) 

1. What are the last five Commandments? 

2. What does Murder mean ? 

3. What feeling does Christ tell ns leads to murder ? (S. 

Matthew 5:21, 22.) 

4. Is it wrong to injure our bodies, and why? 

5. How should we act towards others ? (Commandment 

YII.) 

6. AYhat is Stealing? 

7. Mention some different ways of stealing. 

8. What does bearing false witness mean? 

9. Why is lying a great sin ? 
10. Why is it wrong to covet f 



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CHAPTEE XIII. 



God's Children in Their Earthly Home 

Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

V. Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days 
may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth 
thee. 
11. Q. What is thy duty toivards thy Neighbour? 

A. My duty towards my Neighbour is To love him as 
myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do 
unto me: To love, honour, and succour my father and 
mother : To honour and obey the civil authority : To submit 
myself to all my governors, teachers, spiritual pastors and 
masters: to order myself lowly and reverently to all my 
betters : To hurt nobody by word or deed ; To be true and 
just in all my dealings: To bear no malice nor hatred in 
my heart: To keep my hands from picking and stealing, 
and my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering: 
To keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity: 
Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; But to learn and 
labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty 
in that state of life unto which it shall please God to 
call me. 

Explanation of Words. 

yi. Honour is to respect, obey, care for. 
11. Succour is to support, and care for. 

Civil Authority, the Laws of the City, County, State, 
or Country in which we live. 

Suhmit to, is to yield to, or obey. 

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Governors are any who are in power or authority 
over us. 

Spiritual Pastors, the Clergy, etc. 

Order myself loivly and reverently to all my betters, 
means to respect and be polite to those older or higher in 
position than myself. 

Dealings are actions. 

Malice is Spite or Grudge. 

Picking is taking things of little value, but yet which 
do not belong to us. 

Sla7idering, Gossip or unkind speaking of faults in 
others, or that we can do no good by telling of. 

Soberness. Being moderate in everything, so that we 
keep from anything likely to prevent our being clear- 
headed, self -controlled, and able to avoid sin. 

Chastity. Purity in every Word, Act, and Thought. 

Do my duty in that state of life. Be contented and 
earnest in the position in life, God has put me in. 

The Lessor Story. 

The first four Commandments tell us about our Heav- 
enly Father, and our duty to Him. The other six tell us 
that we are living here on the earth with others who, like 
ourselves, are God^s children. Just as we should treat 
God with reverence and obedience, so we should treat each 
other also. We owe everyone some duty, because we could 
not live at all on earth unless there were others like our- 
selves here to keep us compan}^ So everybody owes some- 
thing to everybody else. 

Now the first of all people on earth to us are our 
parents. They stand next to God, and we owe them rever- 

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ence and obedience. Eepeat the Fifth Commandment. The 
first word is "Honour." What does this mean ? 

A flower is beautiful^ and because of this you admire 
or like it. 

Your friend and playmate is good and generous, and so 
you like to be with him. 

Some great man like George Washington or Abraham 
Lincoln was noble and strong and unselfish, and so you 
honour and respect him. 

The Flag represents our countr}^, and this is the reason 
why we lift our hats when it is raised upon the pole and 
floats out upon the breeze. 

If you lived in England, you would honour the King; 
and if in Japan, you would honour the Mikado, as they 
call him. 

But if we honour the Flag or the King then we must do 
those things which show our honour. A traitor is one who 
is false to his country. He does not obey her laws, and he 
works against her in many ways, and does everything he 
can to hurt her. 

So you see that Honour means a great many things, 
and these things show how much we think of those we 
honour. 

Now what does this Fifth Commandment mean ? 

If you will look on page 269 in the Prayer Book, about 
the middle of the page, you will see three words which will 
tell you: Love; Honour; Succour. 

1. Love. Love means affection, a tender feeling for 
our parents which makes us put them before all other 
people. If we love them, we shall want to serve them, and 
do all we can to bring them happiness. We shall not treat 
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them. Love is always generous and faithful, and so a 
child shows his love by his unselfishness. 

But remember that love will grow stronger if we keep 
on doing loving acts. The more truly we serve our father 
and our mother, the more we shall really love them. 

2. Honour. When we were talking about Honour 
we found that we honoured the King because he is King : 
and admired or honoured the flower because it was beauti- 
ful ; and Washington because he was a great and noble man 
who founded the Eepublic. 

So we honour our father and our mother, first of all 
because they are our parents. If it had not been for 
them we should not have had any existence at all. We 
owe them our very life, and if we live forever and forever, 
they will still be our parents to whom we owe everything. 

First, God is our Creator, but He created us by giving 
us a father and mother and so He made them our special 
creators, or parents. 

Now if we honour our country we obey its laws. So 
we must obey our parents. Obedience is the most impor- 
tant lesson a child can learn. 

Do you remember the story of how Jesus went back 
from Jerusalem to Nazareth when He was twelve years 
old? (S. Luke 2:42-52.) 

He had been in the great city of Jerusalem a few 
days, and had seen its wonderful life and the beautiful 
Temple of God. But He turned and left all these and 
"went back with them to Nazareth like any other child; 
and there, like any other child He lived and grew and did 
the things He was told." He did not protest or find fault 
or complain; but bent to His task and worked at His 
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the reason why He waxed strong in spirit and found favor 
with God and man. 

Obedience means that we put our will under the eom- 




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mand of our parents' wills. They tell us our duty. They 
direct what we are to do. 

The secret of a happy home is that there should be no 
quarrelling, no strife or angry words. And the secret of 
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home liappy and always ask how we can serve others rather 
than ourselves. 

Succour. Nothing is more beautiful than that, when 
our parents are old and unable to work even for themselves, 
we should turn around and give them the same care which 
they gave us when young. Succour means to go to the 
help of anyone. 

One of the finest things a child can ever do, is to be 
thoughtful and quick to serve his mother or father. This 
can be done in a thousand little ways, like running errands, 
helping about the house, saving them extra work whenever 
we can, giving up something of our own, like an hour's 
play to do something for them. 

Some children are so selfish that they begrudge every 
such service. They try to escape it, and find fault and 
complain if they are asked to sacrifice the slightest pleas- 
ure. Such selfishness is very ugly to see, and a selfish 
child is very apt to grow up a selfish man. 

Eemember that we can make ourselves generous or 
selfish. If it is easy for us to be selfish, and we go on 
doing our own way, having our own pleasure, caring noth- 
ing for the convenience of others, keeping what we have 
for ourselves, and refusing to share with others, then we 
simply grow more and more selfish and small. The best 
thing we can do is to keep this Fifth Commandment just 
as God says we should. Then we shall find that all our 
days on earth will be filled with noble happiness, because 
we shall ever be making others about us happy. 

Then this Fifth Commandment means more than rev- 
erence and duty towards our fathers and mothers. 

Eead on page 269 in the Prayer Book what is said about 
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some of these words mean at the beginning of this chapter. 

If we had only our own parents and home to think 
about, then we should not need to learn this. But we all 
of us live with a great many other people. And so we 
must remember that we owe them duties just as well as 
those in our own homes. 

Just as every home or school has laws which we have 
to obey, so the village or city, the State and the great 
United States, all have officers and laws. These we must 
remember, and, when we grow older, learn what they are, 
and do what they command us. A patriot is a man who 
loves his country, and does everything for her honour. 

Then there is the Church. The Bishops and Clergy of 
the Church are called our "spiritual Pastors'' and we must 
show them respect just as we do our fathers and mothers. 

Then there are those whom we call our ''hettersf Who 
are these? Your teachers in school, and those who are 
older and more experienced and wiser than you, and those 
whom you work for, these are your tetters. You ought to 
show them reverence and courtesy. 

You must remember that one of the most important 
things in any boy or girl is what we call courtesy or polite- 
ness. This means that we show by our outward actions 
the thoughtfulness and kindness of our hearts. 

To get up and give your seat to a woman, or to some 
older person, to save them steps by helping them, getting 
things for them, to lift your hat when you meet them, to 
avoid rushing in ahead of them, to ask their pardon if you 
are obliged ever to interrupt them, to speak in a quiet and 
gentle voice in their presence instead of acting in a 
boisterous and rough fashion — all these things, and many 
others, show our courtesy or politeness. 

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Good manners come really from a good heart, and 
every time we check our rudeness and act in a thoughtful 
and gentle way, it will really help to make our hearts nobler 
and better. 

Angry words, angry tempers, trying to get the better 
of others, being unfair, cheating them or talking unkindly 
or falsely about them — all these things make our lives un- 
happy. 

If everyone would just try to do what the Catechism 
tells us here, it would make our homes and the whole world 
far happier and better. 

I. — Eeview Questions. 

{To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. What does the Second Commandment forbid? 

2. What is taught by the Fourth Commandment ? 

3. The Sixth? 

4. The Eighth? 

5. The Fifth? 

6. The Mnth? 

II. — QUESTI0N"S FOR HOME StUDY. 

(To he Answered in Writing, if possihle.) 

1. What is thy duty towards thy neighbour? 

2. Why do we owe everybody about us some duty ? 

3. Whom does God tell us to honour first of all? 

4. Do you know what honour means ? 

5. Do you honour the Flag? Why? 

6. What does it mean to love our parents? To honour 

' them ? 

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7. What does obedience mesiia.? 

8. What does the word succour mean? 

9. How can a child succonr his parents ? 

10. What is a selfish child? 

11. What is a generous child ? 

12. Who are our neighbors ? 

13. Who are our spiritual pastors? 

14. Who are our 5 e^^ersf 

15. What do you mean by saying that some boy has ''good 

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DIVISION IV. OF CATECHISM. 



The Lord's Prayer, the Worship of the Church. 

The Choir of the Church.— The Fourth Part of the 
Catechism contains the Lord^s Prayer, and tells iis what 
this Prayer and all pra3^ers, mean. We come to Church 
not only to learn what our duty is, and be taught God's 
truth, but to bow in prayer and lift our voices in worship. 
Now you know that every Church service is conducted by 
the clergy. Sometimes one clergyman alone, sometimes 
he is assisted by other clergymen or by a choir. The 
place from which most services are led is the Chancel. 
Here are the seats, or stalls, for the clergy and choristers 
and the Lectern on which the Bible lies. If you look at 
the Cross, and at the diagram of the Church, you will see 
that this part of the Church beyond or above the Transepts 
can be divided into two parts : one the Choir, the other and 
best of all, the Sanctuary. 

This first part, the Choir, is the Fourth Division of 
the Church, and corresponds to the Fourth Division of the 
Catechism, which teaches us how to worship our Heavenly 
Father. 

You must remember that \rorship means doing such 
actions, speaking such words, offering such things as show 
our honor or reverence and love for God. 

I. Words of Worshi2J. The first of these are our 
Prayers. They are words which we speak to God, to tell 
Him our needs or to thank Him for His goodness and 
mercy. There are many prayers which we can offer in our 
own words, no matter how simple they are. A little child 
can pray as well as an older person .can. God hears and 
understands us no matter how childlike and ignorant and 

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simple our words may be. But the Chnrcli gives us many j 
other prayers, which we use in the public worship of God. 
These are prayers which everybody can use. The book that 
contains them is called the Boole of Common Prayer. 
This the minister uses in the Choir, and everybody ought 
to have a Prayer Book of his own. When we are in Church 
we should follow the service with the Prayer Book in our 
hands. 

The second kind of words is Hymns. If you will open 
your Prayer Book you will see in Morning Prayer, on pages 
6 to 11, several of these that look like Psalms. They are 
the canticles or little hymns which are sung in Morning 
Prayer. 

1. The Veniie, which comes at the beginning of ser- 
vice. 

2. The Te Deum and Benedicite, one of which is sung 
after the First Lesson, is read. 

3. The Benedictus and Jubilate, one of which is sung 
after the Second Lesson. 

Then, at Evening Prayer, pages 22 to 25 : 

1. The Magnificat and Cantate Domino, and Bonum 
Est, one of which is sung after the First Lesson. 

2. The Nunc Dimittis, the Deus Miseratur, and Ben- 
edic Anima Mea, one of which is sung after the Second 
Lesson. 

The Hymnal is a book that contains other hymns like 
"^^'The Churches One Foundation,'' or ''^There's a Friend for 
Little Children,'' which we all know. In these hymns we 
praise and worship God. 

II. Actions of Worship. It means a great deal that 
we shall make our actions reverent as. well as our words. 

1. We should always kneel when we pray. See this 

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picture of our Blessed Lord. Unless we are physically 
unable to do so, we should always kneel during the Prayers 
in Service, instead of leaning our heads on the seat in front 
of us. When we kneel, let it be always upright on our 
knees. 

2. When we sa}^ the Creed, we should always bow our 
head at the Name of Jesus. Our behavior in Church 
should be very careful, because every action tells something 
of how we feel. By always acting reverently we learn to 
worship God with our bodies as well as with our lips and 
hearts. 

III. Then Worship also means offering something to 
God. When the Wise Men came to worship Jesus, they 
offered Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh. When the 
poor Widoiu came to the Temple, she offered her two mites, 
and Jesus praised her loving gift. So we must remember 
that according to our power, we ought not only to pray 
and praise, but also give something as an offering to God's 
Glory and for God's Church. 



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The Prayer Our Saviour Taught Us 

A. — Prayer to our Father. What is It? 
Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

12. Catechist. My good Child, know this; that thou 
art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in 
the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his 
special grace; which thou must learn at all times to call 
for by diligent prayer. Let me hear,' therefore, if thou 
canst say the Lord's Prayer. 

A. Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy 
JSTame. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, 
As it is in heaven.- Give us this day our daily bread. And 
forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass 
against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver 
us from evil. Amen. 

Explanation of Words. 
1.2. Diligent, earnest^ persistent, and constant. 
Trespasses, Sins and wrong-doings. 

The Lesson Story. 

Do you remember how one day our Blessed Lord was 
with His disciples, and they asked Him to teach them how 
to pray? They were all together somewhere by them- 
selves, and the disciples had been watching Jesus. He 
seemed to be speaking to Someone, and to be thinking 
very quietly, perhaps with His eyes closed and hands 
clasped. They knew that He was praying, and asked Him 

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to teach them also how to do as He did. And He gave 
them this short prayer. (S. Luke 11 : 1-4.) 

Now what do you think our Blessed Lord said in His 
prayers to God His Father? I think it would all depend 
on the way He thought of God and how He felt towards 
Him. And we know how He thought of God, for He 
called Him Father, and He always spoke as if He loved 
His great Father, and was ever trying to do His will. 

This means that He knew God was good and true and 
loving, just like a real father must always be to his child- 
ren. And so He knew that God's will, and all that God 
wanted Him to do, must be a loving will, and best for His 
Son Jesus. 

I. Now before we think about this great Prayer, T 
want to tell you why we ought to pray. 

In the Prayer Book, at the bottom of page 269, you will 
find these words. You must learn them by memory, of 
course : 

"My good Child, know this; that thou art not able to 
do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Command- 
ments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace ; 
which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent 
prayer. Let me hear, therefore, if thou canst say the 
Lord's Prayer." 

You know that you cannot grow up and do all the 
work you ought to without learning many things. But 
you cannot learn without some teacher. Then you cannot 
get along without someone to help you. 

Many of our lessons are hard to stud}^, and even after 
we have learned them, we often forget them. And so 
everybody has to have help sometimes. We could not get 
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make mistakes, to help us when we need help for some 
hard and diflficnlt task. 

Children cannot get along without playmates, any more 
than without parents and teachers. Grown-up people, no 
matter how strong they are, have to talk with each other 
about things. So all our life long we must help others 
and be helped by others. No one can live all alone. 

Now this is the reason why we need God's help. He 
gives us commandments, and these we must keep. We 
must believe Him and worship Him, we must keep the 
Holy Day, and go to His Church; and then besides, we 
must do all we can to make the world about us better. 

God wants the whole world to love Him, and there is 
not a place anywhere, not a child or any man or woman in 
all the world that God does not love and remember. So 
you see, we cannot live all alone and selfishly by ourselves. 
We must do everything we can to make the earth itself a 
happy place. 

What is this help which God gives us ? The Catechism 
calls it grace. Grace is help or favor, something that we 
need to enable us to do anything. Suppose you were sick : 
the doctor would bring you the grace of health. So if you 
were doing hard work, and were helped by a friend; or 
learning difficult lessons, and were helped by your teacher. 
There are many, many ways in which we find ourselves 
needing the help or grace of God. 

In those old Psalms which we read in Church we hear 
of how God helped men. Psalm 23, ^'The Lord is my Shep- 
herd/' is very beautiful. So is Psalm 27, "^The Lord is 
my light and my salvation:" 

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But we cannot do this by ourselves all alone without 
help. So we must pray to God. 

But what is Prayer ? 

If you had been beside Jesus when He was praying, 
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JESUS PEAYIKG IN GETHSEMANE. (Hofmann.) 



guide Him, talking with God about His work, and then 
you would have seen how quiet He became sometimes, just 
as if He were thinking of someone, someone very near and 
dear to Him. Then you would have seen how He came 
back to His disciples and began His work again. He 
seemed to be stronger, as if He had been helped by some- 
one. Do you wonder that they asked Him to teach them 
how to pray to God when they saw how God helped Him in 
His work? 

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Jesus used to pray very often^ because He was always 
doing God's work. Sometimes He prayed all the night 
long. He prayed before He did any great work of mercy, 
like healing the sick or raising Lazarus from the grave, 
and in the Garden of Gethsemane before His betrayal, and 
then on the Cross He prayed to God. 

Do you know the Lord's Prayer? It is called so be- 
cause He taught it to His disciples. It is very simple. 
There is not a word in it that a child cannot understand, 
and yet it is the Prayer which everybody loves to use. 
^N'ow there are two parts in it : 

(1) One in which we bless or hallow the Name of our 
Father. We begin with the words "Our Father," just as 
Jesus did. In the eleventh chapter of S. Matthew's Gos- 
pel and the twenty-fifth verse, He began His Prayer so. 
The very word Father shows how near God was, how 
perfectly He trusted, and talked with, God. So He teaches 
us to do the same. It is just like our speaking to our 
earthly father or mother whom we trust. I told you in 
one of our lesson stories that when we love our parents 
we honor them, and how we should feel if anyone else in- 
sulted or hurt them. So we honor God. We bless Hini. 
We want all the world to honor and love Him. We pray 
that His Kingdom m-ay come. 

But where is His Kingdom'^ Partly here on earth 
where we now live : and partly in the heaven above, all 
those great worlds which fill the sk}^, and those wonderful 
places where the angels of God dwell, and where we our- 
selves are going when we die. Learn these verses from 
Hymn 408, during the week: 

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Jerusalem, the golden! 

With milk and honey blest; 
Beneath thy contemplation 

Sink heart and voice opprest. 
I know not, oh, I know not. 

What joys await us there! 
What radiancy of glory! 

What bliss beyond compare! 

sweet and blessed country, 

The home of God's elect! 
sweet and blessed country. 

That eager hearts expect! 
Jesu, in mercy bring us 

To that dear land of rest! 
Who art, with God the Father, 

And Spirit, ever blest. 

I. — Eevieav Questions. 
{To he Ansivered Orally in Class.) 

1. What is your duty to God? Explain each point. 

2. What is your duty to your neighbor? 

3. Who is your neighbor? 

4. In what ways have your bad habits led you to brcuL 

your duty to your neighbor? 

5. Is it a sin^ or unimportant? 

II. — Questions for Home Study. 
{To le Answered in Writing, if possille.) 

1. Can you tell me the story about how Jesus taught II i.^ 

disciples the Lord's Prayer? 

2. Why do you think Jesus prayed to His Father ? 

3. Why do we need God's grace or help? 

4. Do you need help in school, and why? 

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5. In Psalm 23, what name is given to God? In Psalm 

27, what ? 

6. What picture do yon find in this Lesson Story? 

7. Can jovl tell me how many sentences there in the 

Lord^s Prayer ? Count them. 

8. Why do we call God a King ? 

9. Can yon tell me what two places of God^s Kingdom are 

mentioned in the Lord's Prayer? 



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The Prayer Our Saviour Taught Us 

B. — Our Fatlier's Love and Care. 
Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

13. Q. What desirest thou of God in this Prayer? 

A. I desire my Lord God, our heavenly Father, who 
is the giver of all goodness, to send his grace unto me, and 
to all people; that we may worship him, and serve him, 
and obey him, as we ought to do. And I pray unto God, 
that he will send us all things that are needful both for our 
souls and bodies ; and that he will be merciful unto us, and 
forgive us our sins ; and that it will please him to save and 
defend us in all dangers both of soul and body; and that he 
will keep us from all sin and wickedness, and from our 
spiritual enemy, and from everlasting death. And this I 
trust he will do of his mercy and goodness, through our 
Lord Jesus Christ. And therefore I say. Amen, So be it. 

EXPLAXATIOX OF WORDS. 

13. What desirest thou, what do you wish or want. 

Spiritual Enemy, Satan or the devil. 

Amen, Hebrew word for '^'So be it," "Let it to be so," 
that is. Let it be answered. 

The Lesson" Story. 

How many Commandments are there? Can jo\i tell 
me how many of them speak of our duty towards God? 
Which are these? 

What do all the others teach us ? 

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1. Now read over the Lord^s Prayer and you will see 
that there are six things which we mention. Three of 
these refer to the glory of God Himself, and three of them 
are prayers for ourselves. It is very right that we should 
first think of God^s glory, because when we truly think of 
God, it makes us think properly of ourselves. If we 
thought of God carelessly and did not feel any responsi- 
bility towards Him, we should soon find that we cared 
very little for others about us. 

Then, too, you must remember that it is a great thing 
to have a great and glorious Father in heaven. For if we 
are His children, and really believe it, then our own hearts 
feel that it is a noble thing to live as children of such a 
God. 

2. You can understand how when Jesus thought of 
the glory of God, it must have made even the earth about 
Him, every little fiower more beautiful, and, above all, 
every man and woman and child seem more worthy of His 
love. There is a wonderful verse in the Epistle to the He- 
brews, which I want you to learn (12: 2), which tells us 
how Jesus bore all the shame and sorrow men put upon 
Him, and even death, because these were as nothing com- 
pared with the glory and joy of God. 

Then one day. He was telling people how carefully and 
lovingly they should treat little children. He said they 
should always remember that up in heaven, the guardian 
angels of little children look on the Face of God. Who 
can hurt a little child if he stops to think that he is so 
dear to God, that even there, in the heavenly glory, God 
gives to some blessed angel the special oversight of that 
child? 

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A GUARDIAN ANGEL. 
God, that madest earth and heaven. 

Darkness and light; 
Who the day for toil hast given, 

For rest the night: 
May Thine angel-guards defend us, 
Slumber sweet Thy mercy send us, 
Holy dreams and hopes attend us. 

This livelong night. 



Now we come to the second part of the Prayer — 
First, we say our praj^er for daily bread. This means 
very much more than asking God to send ns each morning 
a loaf of bread for the day. G-od^s way of giving ns bread 
is by letting ns work for it. Everything comes from God. 
No flower or grass, no fruit or grain could grow unless by 
His power. And just as He made the grass to grow as 
grass should grow, and animals to live as animals should 
live, so He made us to do as we should do. It is necessary 
for us to work just as it is for animals to work. But some- 
times trouble comes, and people are very sick, and many 
things happen to make it very hard for us to live. Then 
God helps us through the kindness of others. We pray 
for our daily bread, for we know that the power to work, 
and every other blessing, comes from Him who watches 
over us. 

You are a little child, and every morning you say to 
your mother, "Mother, please teach me to do my work to- 
day, and give me your care.^^ Now this would mean more 
than simple bread. It would mean watching over, pro- 



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viding you with clothes^, sending yon to school, teaching 
you to work about the house, to sew and cook, or to enable 
you to learn some trade. All these things are necessary 
to your daily life. 

So our daily bread from God means whatever is neces- 
sary for soul and mind as well as for our body. 

Here is a picture of Jesus preaching on the side of the 
mountain. He told the people they must ever remember 




that the Heavenly Father cared for them, but that they 
must be faithful in doing His will. God^s grace and help 
are always necessary, as I told you in the last chapter. 

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I. — Eeview Questions. 

{To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. What Prayer did our Saviour teach His followers ? 

2. What means did He provide to make us members of 

God? 

3. What Laws are given ns to obey? 

4. What is the First Division of the Catechism? The 

Second? The Third? 

11. — Questions for Home Study. 
{To he Answered in Writing, if possihle.) 

1. How many separate sentences are there in the Lord's 

Prayer ? 

2. What does the first sentence mention? 

3. The second sentence? 

4. The third sentence ? 

5. Who do God's will in heaven? 

6. Why did Jesns say men must always treat little child- 

ren with care and love ? 
(Find this in the Lesson Story and in the eighteenth 
chapter of the Gospel of S. Matthew. 

7. Can yon repeat Hymn 19 ? 

8. Where does ^^onr daily bread" come from? 

9. Can yon tell me how God provides it for us? 



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CHAPTER XVI. 



The Prayer Our Saviour Taught Us 

C. — Our Father s Forgiveness and Deliverance. 

Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 
Private Morning Prayers for Daily Use at Home. 
Kneel down at jovlx bedside and say : 
"In the N"ame of the Father, and of the Son, and of 
the Holy Ghost. Amen." 

"Our Father, Who art in heaven," etc. 
"0 Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and Everlast- 
ing God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of 
this day; Defend us in the same with Thy mighty power; 
and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run 
into any kind of danger; but that all our doings, being 
ordered by Thy governance, may be righteous in Thy sight, 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." 

"My Father, for another night 
Of quiet sleep and rest, 
For all the joy of morning light 
Thy Holy Name be blest. 

"Whate'er I do, things great or small, 
Whate'er I speak or frame, 
Thy glory may I seek in all, . 
Do all in Jesus' Name. 

"My Father, for His sake, I pray 
Thy child accept and bless ; 
And lead me by Thy grace to-day 
In paths of righteousness." 

— (Hymn 640, Hymnal.) 

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Private Evening Prayers for Daily Use at Home. 

Kneel down at your bedside and say : 

"In the IsTame of the Father, and of the Son, and of 
the Holy Ghost. Amen." 

"Our Father, Who art in heaven," etc. 

"0 Lord God, of Thy fatherly goodness and mercy, 
pardon all our offences, which in thought, word, or deed, 
we have this day committed against Thy Divine Majesty. 
And now. Lord, since the night is upon us and we are to 
take our rest, we pray Thee lighten our eyes that we sleep 
not in death. Let not our beds prove our graves, and so by 
the power of Thy mercy protect us, that we may wake to 
bless Thy great and glorious Name, and study to serve 
Thee all the days of our lives. We ask it for Jesus Christ's 
sake. Amen." 

"Into Thy hands I commend my spirit, for Thou hast 
redeemed me, Lord, Thou God of Truth." 

"Now I lay me down to sleep, 
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep ; 
If I should die before I wake, 
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take. 

"Lord, keep us safe this night. 
Secure from all our fears; 
May angels guard us while we sleep, 
Till morning light appears." 

— (Hymn 645, Hymnal.) 

"Forgive me, Lord, for Thy Dear Son, , 

The ills that I this day have done ; 
That with the world, myself, and Thee, 
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be," 

— (Hymn 18, Hymnal.) 

(It would be well if the child can get the teacher to supply 
these Prayers on separate cards for convenient use, morning and 

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evening. They are securable in this form, through the Commis- 
sion. ) 

The Lesson- Story. 

We have been thinking about how God gives ns our 
"daily bread." He has made the world so that it brings 
forth grain and corn and all those things which we use for 
food. Of course we must work ourselves. But all we do 
would amount to nothing if He did not make these harvests 
to grow by His rain and wind and sun. So it is He who 
creates all things. He clothes the earth with beauty, and 
gives life and breath to all things. 

It is very necessary first, for us to have food, because 
otherwise we should die. Life is the first thing we need, 
just as it is the first thing a rose-bush, or tree, or animal, 
needs. 

Then everything else comes. The moment we live, we 
begin to live with other people. One little boy all alone, 
without any other children at all — how lonely he would be ! 
Or a man living all by himself on a deserted island in the 
sea — how terrible that would be ! 

So we must have others to see and talk with, to enjoy 
what we have, and so that we can be happy with them. 

But if we live with each other we cannot be happy un- 
less we strive always to help and serve one another. If ever 
we fail to do so, if we are selfish, or if we do each other any 
wrong, then we must be forgiving. 

This is the reason why we ask God to forgive us also. 

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who tres- 
pass against us. 

Trespass means to do things we should not. For in- 
stance, if we are forbidden to go into someone's garden, 
and we pay no attention but go, we commit a trespass. 

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S. Luke uses the word sins instead of trespasses, and S. 
Matthew, the word deljts. Yon see a sin is doing what is 
forbidden, and a deht is something which we owe others to 
whom perhaps we have no right to owe it, or which we may 
not be able to pay. 



Bact ThougfitJ 




THE TREE OF SIN 

From Scadding's ''Direct Answers. 
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But can God forgive us if we are not willing to forgive 
others? Perhaps someone has injured us, and we hold it 
against them. We refuse to forgive. We dislike them, 
and will have nothing to do with them. 

We may say^ "I will forgive them if you want, but I 
shall never speak to them again." . 

This is not real forgiveness. Forgiveness is to forgive 
not in words only, but to hold no grudge in our hearts. 

If God were to say to us, "I will forgive, but just keep 
out of my sight," that would not be forgiveness at all. We 
should at once know that our heavenly Father had not 
truly forgiven us. We should fear to go to Him, and could 
not trust in His goodness. 

So it is with ourselves, and we pray that God will for- 
give us as we forgive others. That means that just as we 
want forgiveness for ourselves and as others want real 
forgiveness from us, so we ask that God will Himself 
forgive. 

Lead iis not into teniptation, hut deliver us from evil. 

We know that our Saviour was tempted in the wilder- 
ness. For forty days He was there alone. Often Satan 
tried to tempt Him to be false to God. There is a picture 
which reminds you how the Devil appealed to Him. 

But why was our Lord tempted ? Because He was our 
Brother, like us, and He wanted to make us realize how He 
can understand our temptations. So He became like us, 
His earthly brethren. 

Then do you not know that we are always made strong 
by struggle and effort? 

If you were in school you would not ask your teacher 
never to set a hard lesson for you, to take out all the diffi- 
cult problems and give you only the' easy ones. But you 

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would ask her to remember your ignorance and give you 

questions and problems that were just suited to your needs. 

God knows our weakness, and if we truly trust in Him, 




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THE TEMPTATION OF OUR LORD. {Hofmann.) 

we shall find that everything He sends us is best for us. 
He means that we shall learn many a hard lesson, do many 
a hard piece of work, and always remember that we are, 
by His grace, stronger than the Devil. Then we must not 
forget that when we are tempted Christ is very near us. 



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He will help us at once if we turn to Him. There is the 
story of how S. Peter denied his Saviour. It is told in S. 
Luke's Gospel (22 : 31) how all this happened. And Jesus 




COME UNTO ME. (Hofmann,) 



said to S. Peter, "Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath de- 
sired to have thee that he ma}'- sift thee as wheat; but I 
have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not, and when 
thou art converted (that is when thqu hast been through 
this terrible experience), strengthen thy brethren.^' 

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Never after this did S. Peter feel that Christ could 
forget him. But Christ never forgets ns any more than 
He did S. Peter. We are to be made strong by onr endur- 
ing faithfully those temptations which come. 

The Lord's Prayer is^ you see, the pattern of what our 
prayers should be. Every time we say it, we are repeating 
words which were said by Jesus Himself. The more we 
use it, the better we shall understand it. It has been said 
by every Christian since our Lord taught it to His dis- 
ciples. And as you hear it said in the Service of the 
Church, you should join in it with the others. 

I. — Eeview Questions. 

{To he Ansiuered Orally ^ in Class.) 

1. Name some of the things we ask in the Lord's Prayer. 

2. What special things did Jesus Christ, our Lord, do for 

us? 

3. What three promises did you make for Him at joiiv 

Baptism ? 

II. — QuESTiojs^s FOR Home Study. 
(To he Ansivered in Writing, if possihle.) 

1. How many sentences are there in the Lord's Prayer 

in the Catechism? 

2. What does the first sentence mean ? 

3. What does the second? The third? 

4. Look and see if we ask anything for ourselves in these 

sentences. 

5. Who are those that do God's will in Heaven? 

6. Find out who are mentioned in the Prayer on page 

214 of the Prayer Book. 

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7. What does Jesus teach us in the fifth sentence ? 

8. How should we forgive those who injure us? 

9. What do we pray for in the sixth sentence ? 

10. Do you remember the story of how our Lord warned 

S. Peter? 

11. Do you thinly S. Peter was made stronger by i\\\< 

temptation ? 



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Goin^ to Church 

Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

Hymn 30 : "To Thy temple I repair" (Hymnal). 

Lesso:n^ Talk. 

Yon know that we have learned a great many things 
in these Lesson Stories. 

1. God is onr Father. 

2. He created the heavens and the earth, and made 
us in His own image. 

3. He loves everyone, because everybody is His child. 

4. His holy angels serve and worship Him in Heaven. 

5. He sent His Blessed Son Jesus Christ to tell us all 
about Him. 

6. Jesus prayed to the Heavenly Father, and told us 
we should also do the same. 

7. But the Church is God's earthly House, and here 
He wants all His children to gather for His worship. 

8. So the Church is different from other houses, be- 
cause in it we make things beautiful and fit for God's 
worship. 

9. That is the reason why we have such different win- 
dows, and why the Church is so different itself; and why 
the ministers and singers wear such different garments. 

Now I am going to ask a question and make an answer 
for it. It is not very long, and you can easily learn to 
repeat it. 

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Question. — Why ought yon to go to church? 

Ansiver. — 1. Because God is my Heavenly Father, who 
made me and all the world, I ought to honor Him in His 
Holy Church. 

2. Because if men honor and love God, they will do 
His will. 

3. Because other people are also God's children and I 
ought to come with them, and not worship God only by 
myself. 

But are you not too young to go to Church ? 

Do you not think it is enough to go to Sunday School ? 

Now I think you ought to go to church as well. It 
would be a strange world, and a strange home, without 
children. God's Church is the Home of God's children, 
and the children belong there just as much as in their 
earthly homes. It is not always possible for you to stay to 
the end of a long service, and the minister will tell you 
when you may go out. 

In some churches they have very beautiful services for 
children, and nothing can be more pleasing to our Heav- 
enly Father than such worship from His younger children. 

You know that Chorister boys are often quite young 
when they enter the Choir. Yet they take part in the 
worship of the Church just as truly as the Clergy, and 
sing the music, not only in Morning and Evening Prayer, 
but also in the great service of the Blessed Sacrament. 
For many, many hundreds of years young boys have sung 
in the Choirs of the Church, just as they used to sing in 
the Choirs of the old Jewish Temple, so we may be sure 
that children's worship is very pleasing to God. 

All through the Holy Land in villages like Nazareth, 
where Jesus lived, there were Synagogues, or Houses of 

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Worship. And it is quite possible that Jesus Himself, 
when a boy, learned to sing the beautiful old hymns which 
we call Psalms, very much as we sometimes hear them sung 
in our own Church service. 

AYhen you go into church you see the Choir standing 
part on one side, and part on the other side, of the chan- 
cel. That is the way the Temple Choristers stood when 
they sung, and they used to answer each other sometimes. 
You know how the Minister reads one verse in the Psalms 
and the Choir and Congregation read the other, and in 
the Prayers, how all respond Amen. Well, this reminds 
you of the way our Lord Jesus was taught to take part in 
the worship in Nazareth. 

But how should we behave in Church? Let me give 
you some very simple rules. 

1. When you enter church, first kneel and ask God's 
blessing. Say some such words as these : 

In the Fame of the Father, and of the Son, 
and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 

Prayer. 

Grant, Heavenly Father, that as Thy Son 
Jesus Christ worshipped Thee in Thy Holy Tem- 
ple, so I may, with all Thy children, offer loving 
worship before Thy Throne on earth ; through the 
same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
You should treat everything in the Church very care- 
fully. Do not break the covers of the Prayer Books or 
Hymnals, nor write in them. Try to take part in the ser- 
vice, because this is your share in the worship of God. 
Never forget that the Altar is God's special earthly Throne, 
and that you should treat it reverently. Bow your head at 

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the Name of Jesus always when you say or hear it. Be- 
have very reverently, and whenever you move about from 
one part of the church to another, do it quietly. 

Do not look about you, nor talk with others. If you 
are with some little child who is restless, you can- tell him 
in a very loiu voice what different things in the Church 
mean, and try to make him feel that God's House is a beau- 
tiful place for His children, and that everything is used in 
some way for God's worship. 

While you are quietly waiting for the service to begin, 
you can read the verses of hymns that you specially like, 
or open the Prayer Book and read some Gospel story, or 
one of the beautiful Psalms which children used to sing 
in the Temple, and in the Synagogue at Nazareth, when 
our Lord was a little boy. 

I will give you some hymns which you can read in this 
way : 

Christmas : — 58, ^^0 little town of Bethlehem.'' 
Epiphany : — 65, "As with gladness men of old." 
Palm Sunday : — 90, "All glory, laud and honor." 
Holy Week : — 544, "There is a green hill far away." 
£'a5^er:— no, "Come, ye faithful." 
Ascension : — 545, "Golden harps are sounding." 
Whitsunday : — 375, "Our blest Eedeemer." 
Trinity :— 383, "Holy, Holy, Holy !" 553, "There's a 
Friend for little children." 

Gospel for Holy Baptism : — Prayer Book, page 246. 
Gospel for First Epiphany : — Prayer Book, page 72. 
Gospel for Christmas: — Pra3^er Book, page 61. 
Gospel for Holy Innocents : — Prayer Book, page 65. 
Psalm 23 :— Page 353. 
Psalm 19 :— Page 348. 

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Psalm 121 :— Page 485. 

Psalm 145 :— Page 503. 

Psalm 148 :— Page 506. 
How should lue behave in Church? 

I will tell 3^ou. We should remember that because it is 
God's House our first thought should be to honor Him. 
Out-doors you may play and do many things you would 
not do in Church. We should be quiet and reverent. Over 
in England in the House of Parliament there is a room 
where on one side stands the throne on which the King 
sits. He only is allowed to sit there. When people enter 
this room^ and pass the throne, they always bow the head 
to show honor to the King. Here in our country you know 
that we all rise when we salute the Flag, or sing "My 
countr}', 'tis of thee/' because in this way we show honor 
to our country. 

So in church we kneel when we enter, and when we 
pass the altar, we do it reverently, bowing the head, to 
show honor to God, for the Altar is God's earthly Throne. 

If you read the Third Commandment, you learn that 
you should never speak carelessly and irreverently of God. 
We should honor His Holy Name, because His N"ame repre- 
sents Him, just as your name represents you. You know 
how you would think of some boy or girl who spoke rudely 
of your mother. This is what we call reverence or respect, 
and just as no brave or noble boy would treat his mother 
rudely, so he would not treat God rudely or speak His 
Name carelessly. 

What good does this do us ? 

It makes us thoughtful and courteous. Our outward 
actions are very important. They generally show what sort 
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learn from such reverence is good manners. Good manners 
show good feelings, and people who are really good and 
hind always show it in their actions. 

God knows what is good for ns and He gives ns His 
Church and the Bible, Holy Days and Holy Places, to 
teach us to remember Him, and to act in a proper and 
noble way as His children should. 

You can always tell the difference between one who is 
reverent and careful in worship, and one who has no rev- 
erence. But remember that it is very important that you 
should be able to find your places in the Prayer Book, so 
that when you attend church you will know how to follow 
the service. 

I. — Eeview Questio^ts. 

(To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. Be prepared to repeat the entire Catechism, with your 
Class, as a practice drill, so far as you have learned 
it. 

II. — Questions for Home Study. 

(To he Answered in Writing, if possible.) 

1. Why ought we to go to Church? 

2. Why is the Church so different from other houses ? 

3. Why is it so large and holds so many people ? 

4. Who ought to go to Church, and who do go of the 

people you know? 

5. Do the}^ all go? All your own family? 

6. Are you not too young to go ? 

7. Are you any younger than the choir-boys? 

8. When you first enter Church, what should you do? 

9. Can you repeat the prayers given you in this Lesson 

Story? 

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10. How should you handle and treat things used in God's 

worship ? 

11. Do you remember what people do in the Throne Room 

in England? 



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The Sacraments, the Means of Grace 
Provided in God's Church 

The Altar. — The last part of the Catechism tells us 
about the Sacraments. But I want you to think about the 
way you entered the Church first. There, at the door, you 
know the Baptismal Font is often placed, because in Bap- 
tism you are born into the Family of God, Now up at the 
other end, opposite the door, is the Sanctuary, and the 
Altar. So the Church begins with the Sacrament of Holy 
Baptism, and ends at the Altar with the Sacrament of the 
Holy Eucharist or the Lord's Supper. 

If we were passing through the Church, as if on a little 
journe}^, we should at the Door learn how God makes us 
His Children. Then as we went up the Nave, we should 
learn the Creed, or the Truth God wants us to know and 
understand. Then we come to where the arms of the 
Cross, or the Transepts reach out on each side, and there 
we should learn what God wants us to do; the duties we 
owe Him, and the duties we owe to our parents and friends 
and all men. We learn how we should love and serve each 
other, and put into practice all those things which Christ- 
ians ought to do in this world. 

Then we come up into the Choir. Here, all about us 
are the Prayer Desks, and Stalls for those who lead in the 
Worship of the Church. We learn how to pray and sing 
and offer worship before God. 

But now, last of all, we come to the Altar, standing 
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see it, with its Cross, and beautiful Yestments, and some- 
times with its two Candlesticks, one at either side, to tell 
us of our Saviour, who was both God and Man, and who 
gave Himself on the Cross for us. His life was the greatest 







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gift He could give us, because He came to be the Life of 
the world. So He gives us the Sacrament of His Body 
and His Blood, and whenever we celebrate this Sacrament 
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Life to strengthen us and help us. In every Sacrament of 
the Altar, He comes to iis, is with iis. We cannot see Him 
with onr bodily ej^es. But we know that He is really with 
us. 

When our Blessed Lord gave His disciples this Service 
of the Holy Eucharist on the night of Maundy Thursday, 
He told them that as often as they should celebrate it, they 
would show forth His Death and receive His grace. So 
they used to celebrate the Holy Communion every Lord's 
Day or Sunday. 

1. Now I want you to know that everything in the 
Church comes to us from the Altar. That is God's Throne 
on earth. Whenever we see the Holy Communion cele- 
brated, and the Bread and the Wine are consecrated to be 
the Body and the Blood of Christ, then we must remember 
that this Sacrament is the sign of Christ's Presence. 

The Altar is the place where Jesus Christ comes to us. 
Everything in the Church leads us to the Altar. The Altar 
makes the whole Church a holy place. The Altar is the 
outward and visible sign of God's glory. 

If it had not been for God's love towards us, Christ 
would not have come to earth. So the Altar, with its 
Cross and the Blessed Sacrament, tells us always of God's 
love. This is the reason why we must always treat it with 
greatest reverence. 

2. There is a railing in front of the Altar, called the 
Communion Bail. Here the people kneel when they re- 
ceive the Blessed Sacrament. 

3. Sometimes you will see young boys vested like 
Choristers inside this Bail. They are called Servers or 
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Acolytes. Their duties are to assist the Priest when he 
allowed to do this. 

4. There are other duties to be done in connection 
with the Altar, such as arranging flowers, cleaning the 
Vases and the Altar Silver, making the Altar Linen, or 
taking care of it and the Altar Vestments. These things 
can be done by women and girls. Bnt snch work is very 
sacred work, and care should be taken never to talk loudly 
or thoughtlessly when we are doing such work, and espe- 
cially when we are at work in the Sanctuary itself. 

At one side of the x\ltar there is a shelf or a table, 
called the Credence, where the Alms Basin, and other 
things connected with the Altar Service are placed, which 
do not belong on the Altar itself. 

The silver Wine Cups used on the Altar are called 
Chalices; the little silver plate for holding the Bread is 
called a Faten. 




CHALICE AND PATICN". 



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The Sacrament of Holy Baptism 

Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

14. Q. Hoto many Sacraments hath Christ ordained 
in His Church 2 

A. Two only, as generally necessary to salvation; that 
is to say, Baptism, and the Supper of the Lord. 

15. Q. What meanest thou ly this word Sacrament? 
A. I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward 

and spiritual grace given nnto ns ; ordained by Christ Him- 
self, as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge 
to assure us thereof. 

16. Q. Hoiv many parts are there in a Sacrament f 

A. Two; the outward visible sign, and the inward 
spiritual grace. 

17. Q. ^¥hat is the outward visible sign or form in 
Baptism f 

A. Water ; wherein the person is baptized, In the Name 
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 

18. Q. What is the inivard and spiritual grace? 

A. A death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteous- 
ness : for being by nature born in sin, and the children of 
wrath, we are hereby made the children of grace. 

19. Q. What is required of persons to he baptized? 
A. Repentance, whereby they forsake sin ; and Faith, 

whereby they stedfastly believe the promises of God made 
to them in that Sacrament. 

2. Q. Why then are Infants baptized, ivhen by reason 
of their tender age they cannot perform them? 

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A. Because they promise them both by their Sureties; 
which promise, when they come to age, themselves are 
boimd to perform. 

ExPLAIsTATIOiST OF WORDS. 

14. Ordained, Appointed, ordered, 

15. Visible, Seen with the eyes. 
Pledge, A Promise. 

16. Parts, Sides, or Divisions. 

18. Children of wrath, That is of God's anger or dis- 
pleasure. (See Chapter IV.) 

19. Repentance includes (a) Sorrow for the sin done, (b) 
Confession to God, (c) Confession to the one injured, (d) 
Restitution, restoring or setting right the injury done, (e) 
Amendment of life, or not doing the sin again. 

Steadfastly, Firmly. 

Two things promised are Eepentance and Faith. 

20. Tender age, Youthfulness. The meaning of Question 
and Answer is: — Why are Infants Baptized, when, on ac- 
count of their youthfulness, they cannot perform the prom- 
ises made, to have Eepentance and Faith? Because, by 
their Godparents, they promise to have both Repentance 
and Faith; which promise, the children, when they reach 
the age of knowledge, are bound to fulfil, and have then 
the proper Repentance and Faith. 

The Lesson Story. 

If you were going along the street some day and met a 
friend who had always been very pleasant to you, what 
would you expect him to do ? 

Stop and speak and shake hands with you? 

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speaking and refused to shake hands^ what would you 
think ? 

You would at once suppose that he no longer liked you, 
and why? Because he did not use the outward sign of 
friendship. What might you call the handshake or the 
smile ? 

"The outward and visible sign of an inward" friendli- 
ness. 

Now you see that even in our every-day life in a great 
many things we have two parts — the outward, that we can 
see and touch, and the inward, that we cannot see. This 
inward is what we may call the spiritual part of the out- 
ward sign. 

But why must this be so? Because we cannot always 
know what people are thinking or feeling except they show 
it in some outward way. 

You carry flowers to some sick child, and the flowers 
tell that you are thinking of her. You write a letter to 
your mother and the letter tells your love. So everywhere 
we find signs and symbols. 

N'ow when our Blessed Lord came to earth He showed 
us in outward ways how God was ever thinking about us. 
He acted out His inward love, and so we now understand 
how much it means that God is our Father. 

On page 279 of the Prayer Book you will find some 
questions about "outward and visible sign." The Church 
has two kinds of these, and she calls them her Sacraments. 
One of them is Holy Baptism, and the other the Lord^s 
Supper. These were given us by our Lord Jesus, and He 
commands us to use them always in His Church. The 
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be used all our lives as a way by which we are helped, to 
love and serve God faithfully as His children. 

Each of these Sacraments has two parts^ ^^the outward 
and visible sign, and the inward and spiritual grace/^ 
We are now going to think of Holy Baptism. You remem- 
ber how I told you that just as every child is born into the 
earthly family, so it is born into the heavenly Family. 
Holy Baptism is the Sacrament of Birth, and I want you 
to follow and watch how the little child is baptized and 
brought into God's Family. 

God gives the little child to his earthly parents to be 
brought up for Him. And so when the child is but a few 
weeks old they carry it to the Church. With them perhaps 
will go those who are to act as God-parents or Sponsors. 
They are called so because they are to take the vows of 
Baptism in the name of the child. Sometimes the parents 
themselves take these vows, and they ought always to do so, 
even when there are other God-parents, because someone 
must see that the little child is taught what it means to be 
a member of God's family. 

A little boy has two God-fathers and one God-mother; 
and a little girl has two God-mothers and one God-father. 
When all is ready the Minister begins the Service, as you 
will find it in the Prayer Book on page 244. He tells us 
what it means to be baptized, and reads the beautiful story 
of Christ and the children out of S. Mark's Gospel. Then 
he warns the God-parents that if God promises to do all 
this for the child, then they in behalf of the child must do 
their part. 

You must remember that God always makes us do some- 
thing for ourselves, and this it is that will make us strong 
and noble. 

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So the minister asks them if they will make these prom- 
ises in the child's name. It is as if the child himself prom- 
ised to do this. Then the Minister takes the child in his 
arms and pronounces his name, and pours water on his 
head "in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of 
the Holy Ghost. Amen." This is the reason why our 




THE BAPTISM OF JESUS. (DoTC.) 

names are called Christian, because it is the name by which 
God welcomes us into Christ's Family. 

•We cannot of course see God with our earthly eyes, but 
we can hear His N'ame, we can see His Minister, we can 
see and feel the water as it is used in His Name and by 

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His command^ and these outward things represent Him 
just as your mother's kiss represents her love and care. 

Many hundreds of years ago if we had been beside the 
river Jordan when Jesus was baptized by S. John the 
Baptist, we should have seen dropping down out of the 
blue sky, a white dove, which slowly circled round and 
round until it rested for a moment on the head of Christ, 
and heard a Voice from out the sky, from Someone we 
could not see, /^This is My beloved Son, in whom I am 
well pleased/' 

Now what S. John the Baptist did then was only the 
outward and visible part which the Minister does to-day; 
and the dove represents that which God does now whenever 
a child is christened or baptized. We cannot see any 
dove, but we know that God lets His blessing rest upon the 
little one, as He calls it by its new name. 

This new name means a new life. It is as if God had, 
in the presence of angels and men, declared that this little, 
helpless, ignorant child, was His own, and that from this 
time onward it was living under His ever watchful care. 
Do you not see how very much it means that the world 
should know that God is a tender and loving God? So 
everywhere that the Gospel of Christ goes through all the 
world, there every child is declared to belong to God, and 
is welcomed into all the hope and blessing of God's love 
and given the new life or new Birth, called "Eegeneration." 

But you say, "How could I, when a little child, under- 
stand all this?" Here is a question in the Catechism, 
p. 271: 

Question. Why then are Infants baptized, when by 
reason of their tender age they cannot perform them ? 

Ansiver. Because they promise them both by their 

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Sureties; which promise^ when they come to age, them- 
selves are bound to perform. 

It is very true you could not yourself promise, and you 
could not help yourself. But remember that we cannot 
live without having duties, as I told you before. When you 
were born into your own father's family, you could not 
help it, but as soon as you were old enough, you found you 
were obliged to act as his child. So with all your play- 
mates in their homes ; and so with a prince who is born the 
son of a king; 

Now God created you to be His child, and when you 
were born, God claimed you, in Holy Baptism, to show 
that you were His, and you thus owe Him duties just as 
you owe your earthly parents because you are their child. 

Our Sponsors and Sureties, as the Catechism calls them 
in this answer, spoke for you. It was as if you yourself, 
a little child, acknowledged God as your Father, and that 
you would serve and obey Him all the days of your life. 

There is a very beautiful hymn, No. 207, which you 
should learn. It is sung sometimes at the Baptism of 
children : 

1 Saviour, Who Thy flock art feeding, 

With the shepherd's kindest care, 
All the feeble gently leading. 

While the lambs Thy bosom share; 

2 Now, these little ones receiving, 

Fold them in Thy gracious arm; 
There we know. Thy word believing, 
Only there secure from harm. 

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3 Never from Thy pasture roving 

Let them be the lion's prey; 
Let Thy tenderness, so loving, 

Keep them all life's dangerous way, 

4 Then, within Thy fold eternal, 

Let them find a resting-place; 
Feed in pastures ever vernal, 

Drink the rivers of Thy grace, 

I. — Review Questions, 
{To he Ansivered Orally in Class.) 

1. What have you noticed about the shape of your 

Church ? 

2. What wooden objects have you seen in it? What is 

each used for ? 

3. What brass objects, and what use are they put to ? 

4. What stone objects^ and their use ? 

5. What Service did you attend, and how did you act 

when there ? What did you go through ? 

II. — QuESTioi^s FOR Home Study. 
{To he Answered in Writing, if possihle.) 

1. How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in His 

Church? 

2. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament? 

3. How many parts are there in a Sacrament? 

4. What is the outward and visible sign in Holy Baptism ? 

5. What does the Sponsor, or God-parent, do? 

6. How many God-fathers and God-mothers may a little 

boy have ? How many a little girl ? 

7. Did you ever see a child baptized ? 

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8. Tell me what was done ? 

9. Who baptized Jesus? How was it done? 

10. What Name was given you in yonr Baptism ? 

11. Why then are Infants baptized when by reason of their 

tender age they cannot perform the vows of their 
Baptism ? 

12. Can you repeat Hymn 207? 






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CHAPTER XIX. 



The Sacrament of the Altar 

A. — The Sacrifice of Jesus. 

Memory Work to be Learned at Home. 

21. Q. Wliy luas the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 
I ordained^ 
I A. For the continual remembrance of the sacrifice of 




OUR LORD ON THE CROSS. {EubeUS.) 

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the death of Christy and of the benefits which we receive 
thereby. 

22. Q. What is the outward part or sign of the Lord's 
Supper ? 

A. Bread and Wine, which the Lord hath commanded 
to be received. 

23. Q. What is the inward part, or thing signified? 

A. The Body and Blood of Christ, which are spiritu- 
ally taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's 
Snpper. 

Explanation of Words. 

21. Remembrance, A Memorial. Something to make ns 
remember Christ's Death. 

23. Spiritual, In a spiritual way, we take into our spirit, 
the Spiritual Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. 

Faithful, Those, who are full of Faith and Trust. 

The Lesson Story. 

Now we are going to think about the other Sacrament 
which our Lord commanded us to use. 

What is the most sacred thing in the Church building, 




THE FIRST HOLY COMMUNION. {Da Vinci.) 

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and where is it placed? Can you tell what it looks like? 
And what do we call the Cross that stands over it ? 

Now you remember that before our Blessed Lord was 




THE FALSE JUDAS BETRAYING HIS LOED. (Titian.) 

crucified He had a long and wonderful conversation with 
His disciples on Thursday nighty before Good Friday. He 
was celebrating the beautiful Feast of the Passover with 
them. This was done every year, and the Lamb that was 
slain and eaten at that Feast, was called the Passover 
Lamb, and in this Feast they celebrated the goodness and 
love of God in saving their forefathers from slavery in 
Egypt. 

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After the disciples had eaten supper, Jesus talked to 
them about the love of the Father, and how He Himself 
had come from Heaven to show that love, and bring salva- 
tion and happiness and goodness to all the world. 

But we know that the world is full of evil and wicked 
men who hate God, and hate those who do God's will. It 
has always been so, and it is so to-day. Jesus knew this, 
and this Avas the very reason why He came to earth. 

That very night when He was with His disciples in the 
Garden, a crowd of men came to seize Him. One of His 
own disciples, Judas, betrayed Him to them, and showed 
the soldiers who He was by giving Him a kiss. 

But why did Christ die for us? 

You know that you would gladly suffer for someone 
you love. Mothers and fathers suffer for their children. 
Friends would suffer for the sake of friends. "Then there 
are people who are so loving and noble, that they will suffer 
hardships and even death for others who are not their 
special friends at all, simply because they want to help 
them. 

Years ago a young Eoman Catholic Priest, named 
Father Damien, went to the Leper Island of Hawaii to give 
the ministry of religion to the poor lepers who live there 
and who can never come back. This brave young priest 
died, himself, a leper, and lately another noble young priest 
has gone to take up his blessed and loving work. 

Our own Church has had many brave and noble mis- 
sionaries, like Bishop Patteson, who died a martyr in the 
southern Pacific Ocean, for the love he bore those black 
people who had never heard of the love of Christ. You can 
find those Islands of Melanesia on the map, north of New 
Zealand and west of Australia. 

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Now 3'OU can understand that Jesus, the Son of God, 
must have been able to love us more than anyone could 




THE DEATH OF OUE SAVIOUR. 

who is only a man. And so He died for us on the Cross, 
giving His own life as a sacrifice for us. The Cross was 
the Altar on which He gave His life. 

Read the story of our Lord's sacrifice for us : 

mbat etrist Did for Us 

For us He left His home on high; 
For us to earth He came to die. 
For us He slumbered in a manger; 
For us to Egypt fled, a stranger. 
For us He dwelt with fishermen; 
For us He slept in cave and glen. 

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For us abuse He meekly bore ; 

For us a crown of thorns He wore. 

For us He braved Gethsemane; 

For us He hung upon the tree. 

For us His final feast was made; 
For us by Judas was betrayed. 
For us by Peter was denied; 
For us by Pilate crucified. 
For us His precious blood was shed; 
For us He slept among the dead. 
For us He rose with might at last; 
For us beyond the skies He passed. 
For us He came at God's command; 
For us He sits at His right hand! 

— Young Christian Soldier. 

What is an Altar? 

You should know what an Altar means. It was a great 
pile of stones, or a huge rock, on which, many hundreds of 
years ago, people used to kill the animals which they offered 
as sacrifices to God. You remember that they gave these 
animals out of their own devotion to God, and to show their 
need of God^s favor. 

So just as we give something very precious to us to 
show our love for our mother, Jesus laid down His most 
precious life to show His love and the love of God. 

This is the reason why we call the Cross His Altar. 

And this is the reason why we build the Altar in the 
Church so that we can lay on it the Bread and the Wine 
which represent our loving Lord's Body and Blood, which 
He gave in sacrifice for us. And over it we place the Altar 
Cross, because all these remind us of our Blessed Saviour, 
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I. — Eeview Questions. 
(To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. What is the Sacrament of Admission into the Church 

of Christ? 

2. What Promises (or vows) were made by you or yonr 

Sponsors ? 

3. What did God then do for yon? 

4. AYhat are the duties of God-parents ? 

5. What other names have they ? 

II. — Questions for Home Study. 
(To he Answered in Writing, if possible.) 

1. What Feast did our Lord celebrate just before His 

death? 

2. What happened after the Feast? 

3. Why did our Lord die for us? 

4. What Sacrament or Service did He give us before He 

died? 

5. When did our Lord ordain^ or celebrate, it for the 

first time? 

6. What is the name of Tlmrsday in Holy Week ? 

7. Of Friday in Holy Week? 

8. Why did Christ die for us? 

9. What is an Altar ? 

10. In the Holy Commu.nion, what do we place on the 

Altar? 

11. What does the Bread represent ? 

12. What does the Wine represent ? 

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The Sacrament of the Altar 

B. — ^Y^lat it means to Partake of the Body and Blood 
of Jesus. 

Memory Work to be Lear>sted at Home. 

24. Q. What are the benefits ivhereof ive are partahers 
thereby ? 

A. The strengthening and refreshing of our souls by 
the Body and Blood of Christ, as our bodies are by the 
Bread and Wine. 

25. Q. What is required of those who come to the 
Lord's Supper? 

A. To examine themselves, whether they repent them 
truly of their former sins, stedfastly purposing to lead a 
new life; have a lively faith in God^s mercy through Christ, 
with a thankful remembrance of His death ; and be in char- 
ity with all men. 

EXPLAA^ATION^ OE WORDS. 

24. Partakers, Those who receive. 

Refreshing, Supporting, renewing, making fresh and 
strong again. 

25. Former sins. Those done, before we come to each 
Holy Communion. 

Purposing, Intending. 

Lively Faith, Eeal, active, living Faith, making us 
do right. 

Be in charity with all men. Having no quarrel, nor 
anger nor hatred against anyone. 

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The Lesson Story. 

!N'ow let ns try to tell you what the Body and Blood of 
Christ mean. 

You know that we could not live at all in this world if 
we had no bod}^ Trees have bodies and animals have 
bodies. Every living thing has some sort of body. If a 
soldier on the battle field should run away from danger, in 
order to save his life, we should call him a coward. But if 
he bravely died, then he would be a hero. He gives his 
bodily life and this is the greatest gift he can give, because 
his body represents himself. His living body, his life blood, 
shed for his countr}^, is all he has. It is his very life. It 
shows his love, his bravery and unselfishness. 

So when we speak of the Body and Blood of Christ, we 
speak of His life. This He sacrificed for us, gave for us. 
So when He came to die on the Cross, He said to His dis- 
ciples that He was to give Himself a sacrifice for them and 
all the world, and wanted them always to remember this. 

If you will now look on page 235 of the Prayer Book, 
you will find the place in the Service of the Holy Com- 
munion, where the Church teaches us what our Blessed 
Lord did, and how we try to do as He commanded us on 
the night before He died: 

"For in the night in which he was betrayed, he took 
Bread; and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and 
gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat, this is my 
Body, which is given for you; Do this in remembrance of 
me. Likewise, after supper, he took the Cup; and when 
he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying. Drink ye 
all of this ; for this is my Blood of the New Testament, 
which is shed for you, and for mau}^, for the remission of 

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sins ; Do this, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance 
of me." 

This is part of the prayer which the Priest offers at the 
Altar now when he celebrates the Holy Commnnion. 

Yon are old enough to go to Chnrch and see this done. 
Yon will see the Priest standing before the Altar. All the 
people are on their knees. Yon will see him clothed in long 




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From Mrs. Smith's ''Church Catechism Illustrated." 

white snrplice, or in other vestments, perhaps, which are 
used only at this solemn and beautiful Service. You will 
see him take into his hands the Bread and the Cup of 
Wine, and hear him repeat these words which you read 
just now. This pra3^er is the Prayer of Consecration, by 



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which the Bread and Wine are consecrated to be the BODY 
AND THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. 

Do yon remember what was said abont the two parts 
of a Sacrament? In Baptism "the ontward and visible 
sign'^ was what ? 

What is "the ontward and visible sign'^ in the Lord's 
Snpper ? Yon will know if yon remember what the Priest 
took in his hands. 

Ever since Jesns said to His disciples, "Do this in re- 
membrance of Me," the Chnrch has obeyed His command. 
I told yon that onr Lord said this on Thursday Night in 
Holy Week, jnst before Good Friday. The name given to 
that day is Maundy Thursday. Manndy means command- 
ment, and this is the Thursday of onr Lord's Command- 
ment. 

In Rememhrance means that what we do in the Lord's 
Snpper is to repeat in a sort of figure what our Blessed 
Saviour did actually in His Very Body on Good Friday. 
He is now in Heaven above, living just as truly as He lived 
here, and though we cannot see Him with our earthly or 
bodily eyes, still the Saints and Holy Angels can see Him. 
And His love and care are just as truly over us now, as 
when He was on earth. He has never forgotten the' Cross, 
and if we could only see Him now, we should know that He 
is always trying to help us. 

So whenever we offer up this Bread and Wine in the 
Sacrifice of the Holy Communion, we may feel that the 
Great Father knows that we are "showing forth our Lord's 
Death." When we remember how good and holy He is, 
and why it was that He sufi^ered for us, then we must see 
that anything we do that is wrong and sinful, would give 
Him sorrow now, even as if He were here by our side. 

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Here is a beautiful hymn that you can easily commit 
to memory, and think of whenever you are in Church at 
the Holy Communion Service: 

"I worship Thee, Lord Jesus, 
As children did of old, 
Who sang within Thy Temple 
Hosannas manifold. 

"I worship Thee, Lord Jesus, 
Who on Thine Altar laid 
In this most awful service 
Our Sacrifice art made. 

"I w^orship, Thee, Lord Jesus, 
Who in Thy love divine. 
Art hiding here Thy Presence, 

'Neath forms of Bread and Wine. 

"I worship. Thee, Lord Jesus, 
My King and Saviour mild. 
Thou hast blest other children, 
Bless also me, Thy child." 

Amen. 

I. — Eevieav Questions. 
{To he Answered Orally in Class.) 

1. Why is Holy Baptism called the Sacrament of Birth? 

2. What parts have Sacraments ? 

3. Name the parts in Holy Baptism. 

4. What is the Sacrament of the Altar ? 

5. 'N'ame the parts in it. 

6. Wh}^ was it given to us by our dear Lord ? 

II. — QuESTioi^s FOR Home Study. 
(To he Ansivered in Writing, if possihle.) 
1. What did our Lord do the night before He was cruci- 



fied? 



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2. Where did He then go with His disciples ? 

3. Which disciple betrayed Him, and how did he do it? 

4. How did they kill our Saviour.? 

5. Have yon ever seen a Cross ? 

6. Draw the shape of one. 

7. Where do we have the Cross in Chnrch? 

8. What is an Altar ? 

9. What do w^ nse, when we celebrate the Lord's Snpper, 

to represent His Body and His Blood ? 

10. Have yon ever seen the Priest celebrate the Holy Com- 

mnnion ? 

11. Can yon tell me where he stands when he consecrates 

the Bread and Wine ? 

12. How is he clothed? 

13. What words does he say when he blesses the Bread ? 

14. What words does he say when he blesses the Wine ? 

15. Does the Priest offer the Sacrifice of the Holy Com- 

mnnion for himself only ? 

Ans. — ^0, he offers it as the representative of the 
people. 

16. Do the people have a share in the Service ? 

Ans. — Yes, the people act together with him in offer- 
ing this Service. 

17. How can children share in the Service of the Holy 

Commnnion ? 
Ans. — Children can share in it by being present, and 
offering their worship before the Heavenly Father 
in the IN'ame of Jesns. 



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Have the words and meanings explained. 

If possible, award a special Certificate for Perfect Reci- 
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